llama-stack-mirror/docs/source/providers/index.md
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docs: Update quickstart page to structure things a little more for the novices (#1873)
# What does this PR do?
Another doc enhancement for
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/issues/1818

Summary of changes:
- `docs/source/distributions/configuration.md`
   - Updated dropdown title to include a more user-friendly description.

- `docs/_static/css/my_theme.css`
   - Added styling for `<h3>` elements to set a normal font weight.

- `docs/source/distributions/starting_llama_stack_server.md`
- Changed section headers from bold text to proper markdown headers
(e.g., `##`).
- Improved descriptions for starting Llama Stack server using different
methods (library, container, conda, Kubernetes).
- Enhanced clarity and structure by converting instructions into
markdown headers and improved formatting.

- `docs/source/getting_started/index.md`
   - Major restructuring of the "Quick Start" guide:
- Added new introductory section for Llama Stack and its capabilities.
- Reorganized steps into clearer subsections with proper markdown
headers.
- Replaced dropdowns with tabbed content for OS-specific instructions.
- Added detailed steps for setting up and running the Llama Stack server
and client.
- Introduced new sections for running basic inference and building
agents.
- Enhanced readability and visual structure with emojis, admonitions,
and examples.

- `docs/source/providers/index.md`
   - Updated the list of LLM inference providers to include "Ollama."
   - Expanded the list of vector databases to include "SQLite-Vec."

Let me know if you need further details!

## Test Plan
Renders locally, included screenshot.

# Documentation

For https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/issues/1818

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Signed-off-by: Francisco Javier Arceo <farceo@redhat.com>
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# Providers Overview
The goal of Llama Stack is to build an ecosystem where users can easily swap out different implementations for the same API. Examples for these include:
- LLM inference providers (e.g., Ollama, Fireworks, Together, AWS Bedrock, Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova, vLLM, etc.),
- Vector databases (e.g., ChromaDB, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, FAISS, PGVector, SQLite-Vec, etc.),
- Safety providers (e.g., Meta's Llama Guard, AWS Bedrock Guardrails, etc.)
Providers come in two flavors:
- **Remote**: the provider runs as a separate service external to the Llama Stack codebase. Llama Stack contains a small amount of adapter code.
- **Inline**: the provider is fully specified and implemented within the Llama Stack codebase. It may be a simple wrapper around an existing library, or a full fledged implementation within Llama Stack.
Importantly, Llama Stack always strives to provide at least one fully inline provider for each API so you can iterate on a fully featured environment locally.
## External Providers
Llama Stack supports external providers that live outside of the main codebase. This allows you to create and maintain your own providers independently. See the [External Providers Guide](external) for details.
## Agents
Run multi-step agentic workflows with LLMs with tool usage, memory (RAG), etc.
## DatasetIO
Interfaces with datasets and data loaders.
## Eval
Generates outputs (via Inference or Agents) and perform scoring.
## Inference
Runs inference with an LLM.
## Post Training
Fine-tunes a model.
## Safety
Applies safety policies to the output at a Systems (not only model) level.
## Scoring
Evaluates the outputs of the system.
## Telemetry
Collects telemetry data from the system.
## Tool Runtime
Is associated with the ToolGroup resouces.
## Vector IO
Vector IO refers to operations on vector databases, such as adding documents, searching, and deleting documents.
Vector IO plays a crucial role in [Retreival Augmented Generation (RAG)](../..//building_applications/rag), where the vector
io and database are used to store and retrieve documents for retrieval.
#### Vector IO Providers
The following providers (i.e., databases) are available for Vector IO:
```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
external
vector_io/faiss
vector_io/sqlite-vec
vector_io/chromadb
vector_io/pgvector
vector_io/qdrant
vector_io/milvus
vector_io/weaviate
```