Self host Flowise to chat with your site content

Flowise is an open source platform for building agentic systems by connecting modular building blocks into a workflow. Imagine you run a niche software directory and support site. Customers keep asking the same questions: “Do you have a Docker Compose example for this app?” or “Which apps support SSO?” Instead of answering manually, you can crawl your own site and offer a chat assistant that answers using your content.

That’s Flowise: modular building blocks to create an agentic workflow, connect it to your website content, and publish it as a chatbot through an API wherever your customers already interact.

This video covers the following Flowise Chatflow blocks:

1. Conversational Retrieval QA Chain
2. Buffer Memory
3. OpenAI Moderation
4. Redis Cache
5. Markdown Text Splitter
6. Supabase
7. SQLite Record Manager

Formable's Flowise Portainer stack docker-compose.yml

services:
    flowise:
        image: flowiseai/flowise:latest
        restart: always
        environment:
            - PORT=${PORT}
            # DATABASE
            - DATABASE_PATH=${DATABASE_PATH}
            - DATABASE_TYPE=${DATABASE_TYPE}
            - DATABASE_PORT=${DATABASE_PORT}
            - DATABASE_HOST=${DATABASE_HOST}
            - DATABASE_NAME=${DATABASE_NAME}
            - DATABASE_USER=${DATABASE_USER}
            - DATABASE_PASSWORD=${DATABASE_PASSWORD}
            - DATABASE_SSL=${DATABASE_SSL}
            - DATABASE_SSL_KEY_BASE64=${DATABASE_SSL_KEY_BASE64}
            # SECRET KEYS
            - SECRETKEY_STORAGE_TYPE=${SECRETKEY_STORAGE_TYPE}
            - SECRETKEY_PATH=${SECRETKEY_PATH}
            - FLOWISE_SECRETKEY_OVERWRITE=${FLOWISE_SECRETKEY_OVERWRITE}
            - SECRETKEY_AWS_ACCESS_KEY=${SECRETKEY_AWS_ACCESS_KEY}
            - SECRETKEY_AWS_SECRET_KEY=${SECRETKEY_AWS_SECRET_KEY}
            - SECRETKEY_AWS_REGION=${SECRETKEY_AWS_REGION}
            - SECRETKEY_AWS_NAME=${SECRETKEY_AWS_NAME}
            # LOGGING
            - DEBUG=${DEBUG}
            - LOG_PATH=${LOG_PATH}
            - LOG_LEVEL=${LOG_LEVEL}
            # CUSTOM TOOL/FUNCTION DEPENDENCIES
            - TOOL_FUNCTION_BUILTIN_DEP=${TOOL_FUNCTION_BUILTIN_DEP}
            - TOOL_FUNCTION_EXTERNAL_DEP=${TOOL_FUNCTION_EXTERNAL_DEP}
            - ALLOW_BUILTIN_DEP=${ALLOW_BUILTIN_DEP}
            # STORAGE
            - STORAGE_TYPE=${STORAGE_TYPE}
            - BLOB_STORAGE_PATH=${BLOB_STORAGE_PATH}
            - S3_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=${S3_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME}
            - S3_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_ID=${S3_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_ID}
            - S3_STORAGE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=${S3_STORAGE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}
            - S3_STORAGE_REGION=${S3_STORAGE_REGION}
            - S3_ENDPOINT_URL=${S3_ENDPOINT_URL}
            - S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=${S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE}
            - GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_CREDENTIAL=${GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_CREDENTIAL}
            - GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_PROJ_ID=${GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_PROJ_ID}
            - GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=${GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME}
            - GOOGLE_CLOUD_UNIFORM_BUCKET_ACCESS=${GOOGLE_CLOUD_UNIFORM_BUCKET_ACCESS}
            # SETTINGS
            - NUMBER_OF_PROXIES=${NUMBER_OF_PROXIES}
            - CORS_ORIGINS=${CORS_ORIGINS}
            - IFRAME_ORIGINS=${IFRAME_ORIGINS}
            - FLOWISE_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT=${FLOWISE_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT}
            - SHOW_COMMUNITY_NODES=${SHOW_COMMUNITY_NODES}
            - DISABLE_FLOWISE_TELEMETRY=${DISABLE_FLOWISE_TELEMETRY}
            - DISABLED_NODES=${DISABLED_NODES}
            - MODEL_LIST_CONFIG_JSON=${MODEL_LIST_CONFIG_JSON}
            # AUTH PARAMETERS
            - APP_URL=${APP_URL}
            - JWT_AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET=${JWT_AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET}
            - JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=${JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET}
            - JWT_ISSUER=${JWT_ISSUER}
            - JWT_AUDIENCE=${JWT_AUDIENCE}
            - JWT_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_MINUTES=${JWT_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_MINUTES}
            - JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_MINUTES=${JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_MINUTES}
            - EXPIRE_AUTH_TOKENS_ON_RESTART=${EXPIRE_AUTH_TOKENS_ON_RESTART}
            - EXPRESS_SESSION_SECRET=${EXPRESS_SESSION_SECRET}
            - PASSWORD_RESET_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_MINS=${PASSWORD_RESET_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_MINS}
            - PASSWORD_SALT_HASH_ROUNDS=${PASSWORD_SALT_HASH_ROUNDS}
            - TOKEN_HASH_SECRET=${TOKEN_HASH_SECRET}
            # EMAIL
            - SMTP_HOST=${SMTP_HOST}
            - SMTP_PORT=${SMTP_PORT}
            - SMTP_USER=${SMTP_USER}
            - SMTP_PASSWORD=${SMTP_PASSWORD}
            - SMTP_SECURE=${SMTP_SECURE}
            - ALLOW_UNAUTHORIZED_CERTS=${ALLOW_UNAUTHORIZED_CERTS}
            - SENDER_EMAIL=${SENDER_EMAIL}
            # ENTERPRISE
            - LICENSE_URL=${LICENSE_URL}
            - FLOWISE_EE_LICENSE_KEY=${FLOWISE_EE_LICENSE_KEY}
            - OFFLINE=${OFFLINE}
            - INVITE_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_HOURS=${INVITE_TOKEN_EXPIRY_IN_HOURS}
            - WORKSPACE_INVITE_TEMPLATE_PATH=${WORKSPACE_INVITE_TEMPLATE_PATH}
            # METRICS COLLECTION
            - POSTHOG_PUBLIC_API_KEY=${POSTHOG_PUBLIC_API_KEY}
            - ENABLE_METRICS=${ENABLE_METRICS}
            - METRICS_PROVIDER=${METRICS_PROVIDER}
            - METRICS_INCLUDE_NODE_METRICS=${METRICS_INCLUDE_NODE_METRICS}
            - METRICS_SERVICE_NAME=${METRICS_SERVICE_NAME}
            - METRICS_OPEN_TELEMETRY_METRIC_ENDPOINT=${METRICS_OPEN_TELEMETRY_METRIC_ENDPOINT}
            - METRICS_OPEN_TELEMETRY_PROTOCOL=${METRICS_OPEN_TELEMETRY_PROTOCOL}
            - METRICS_OPEN_TELEMETRY_DEBUG=${METRICS_OPEN_TELEMETRY_DEBUG}
            # PROXY
            - GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTP_PROXY=${GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTP_PROXY}
            - GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTPS_PROXY=${GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTPS_PROXY}
            - GLOBAL_AGENT_NO_PROXY=${GLOBAL_AGENT_NO_PROXY}
            # QUEUE CONFIGURATION
            - MODE=${MODE}
            - QUEUE_NAME=${QUEUE_NAME}
            - QUEUE_REDIS_EVENT_STREAM_MAX_LEN=${QUEUE_REDIS_EVENT_STREAM_MAX_LEN}
            - WORKER_CONCURRENCY=${WORKER_CONCURRENCY}
            - REMOVE_ON_AGE=${REMOVE_ON_AGE}
            - REMOVE_ON_COUNT=${REMOVE_ON_COUNT}
            - REDIS_URL=${REDIS_URL}
            - REDIS_HOST=${REDIS_HOST}
            - REDIS_PORT=${REDIS_PORT}
            - REDIS_USERNAME=${REDIS_USERNAME}
            - REDIS_PASSWORD=${REDIS_PASSWORD}
            - REDIS_TLS=${REDIS_TLS}
            - REDIS_CERT=${REDIS_CERT}
            - REDIS_KEY=${REDIS_KEY}
            - REDIS_CA=${REDIS_CA}
            - REDIS_KEEP_ALIVE=${REDIS_KEEP_ALIVE}
            - ENABLE_BULLMQ_DASHBOARD=${ENABLE_BULLMQ_DASHBOARD}
              # SECURITY
            - CUSTOM_MCP_SECURITY_CHECK=${CUSTOM_MCP_SECURITY_CHECK}
            - CUSTOM_MCP_PROTOCOL=${CUSTOM_MCP_PROTOCOL}
            - HTTP_DENY_LIST=${HTTP_DENY_LIST}
        ports:
            - '${PORT}:${PORT}'
        healthcheck:
            test: ['CMD', 'curl', '-f', 'http://localhost:${PORT}/api/v1/ping']
            interval: 10s
            timeout: 5s
            retries: 5
            start_period: 30s
        volumes:
            - flowise:/root/.flowise
        entrypoint: /bin/sh -c "sleep 3; flowise start"

volumes:
  flowise: