DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex Why This Matters What’s New Get Started in Minutes What You Can Build What’s Next About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Supabase Template is Now Available on DigitalOcean App Platform Expanding our Agentic Inference Cloud: Introducing GPU Droplets Powered by AMD Instinct™ MI350X GPUs Now Available: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 on DigitalOcean’s Agentic Inference Cloud By Narasimha Badrinath Updated: February 18, 2026 2 min read We’re excited to announce that DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform now integrates natively with LlamaIndex - one of the most popular frameworks for building RAG applications. This means you can now connect your Gradient AI Platform Knowledge Base and LLMs directly to LlamaIndex workflows, using the abstractions you already know. No additional infrastructure. No complex setup. Just install two packages and start building. If you’ve built RAG applications before, you know the drill: provision a vector database, set up an embedding pipeline, manage credentials across services, and stitch everything together. It’s a lot of overhead before you write a single line of application logic. With these new integrations, we’ve done the heavy lifting. Your Knowledge Base handles document ingestion, chunking, and embeddings. The LlamaIndex retriever connects directly to it. Add our LLM integration, and you have a complete RAG pipeline running on managed DigitalOcean infrastructure. Two packages are now available on PyPI: llama-index-retrievers-digitalocean-gradientai Connect to your Knowledge Base as a LlamaIndex retriever.