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Tutorials · Chapter D (4/4) · ~11 min

Deploy a RAG app

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Ship retrieval + chat with **env secrets, index version, health checks, and eval gates**.

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Optional on: Professional

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Playground

Deploy RAG checklist

Check each ship gate before sending customer traffic to your RAG app.

Recap

What you just did

You checked five ship gates — env, index, health, eval, rollback.

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Ship checklist

  1. Server-side API keys only
  2. Same embedding model for index + queries
  3. /health and /ready routes
  4. Golden questions run in CI or pre-deploy
  5. Document how to revert index or model version

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Try it

Add a health route that verifies vector DB connectivity before traffic shifts.