Introduction to deployment with Streamlit

As I explained in Chapter 2, LlamaIndex: The Hidden Jewel - An Introduction to the LlamaIndex Ecosystem, I chose Streamlit as the backbone for our side project because of its simplicity and the many deployment options it provides. Streamlit offers an easy approach to deploying your applications, making it possible to share your work with a broader audience with minimal effort. If you successfully followed the installation steps in Chapter 2, your local environment should already be ready for the next steps. However, just in case, before proceeding, make sure you have completed the necessary installation mentioned in Chapter 2, in the Discovering Streamlit – the perfect tool for quick build and deployment section.

Now that we’re all set up, let’s explore the deployment options available for Streamlit applications. Beyond the simplest method of running apps on your local machine, Streamlit offers a variety of web deployment...