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Andrew NguonlyandGitHub 3878addbe0 docs: Refactor content for new LangGraph Platform deployment options (#4118)
### Summary
This is a large refactor of the content for the LangGraph Platform
deployment options. Although there are a lot of changes, I do feel
fairly confident that this is safe to merge and won't have any negative
impact related to confusion around deployment options. However, please
review thoroughly (i.e. run the docs locally).

### Goals and Non-Goals
Just wanted to explicitly state goals and non-goals so that we're clear
about what needs to be done now versus what can be done in a smaller
follow-up PR.

Goals
1. Add new content for the new deployment options (Self-Hosted Data
Plane, Self-Hosted Control Plane).
1. Hide old content for deprecated deployment options (BYOC).
1. Create a pair of "conceptual" and "how-to" pages for each deployment
option. As much as possible, the pages should have consistent headings.
1. Introduce the terms "control plane" and "data plane" and define them
plainly without hiding/abstracting information.

Non-Goals
1. Do not change the navigation of the existing deployment options. As
much as possible, update content in-place or add new pages. Changing the
navigation is a bigger task that can be done later.
1. Do not remove old content for deprecated deployment options. We may
need to refer to this later. There are only ~2 pages (I think).

### Next Steps
1. Update the architecture diagrams for each deployment option. Commit
Excalidraw file to source control.
1. Create a "how-to" page for the Control Plane UI. This page pertains
to 3/4 deployment options. Most of the content lives in the "how-to"
page for Cloud SaaS deployment.
1. Document required RBAC permissions for K8s for Self-Hosted Data Plane
and Self-Hosted Control Plane (and update links).
1. Figure out how to consolidate plan information.
1. Figure out where to document licensing, telemetry, custom
Postgres/Redis.
1. Update autoscaling content.
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Setup

To setup requirements for building docs you can run:

poetry install --with test

Serving documentation locally

To run the documentation server locally you can run:

make serve-docs

This will start the documentation server on http://127.0.0.1:8000/langgraph/.

Execute notebooks

If you would like to automatically execute all of the notebooks, to mimic the "Run notebooks" GHA, you can run:

python _scripts/prepare_notebooks_for_ci.py
./_scripts/execute_notebooks.sh

Note: if you want to run the notebooks without %pip install cells, you can run:

python _scripts/prepare_notebooks_for_ci.py --comment-install-cells
./_scripts/execute_notebooks.sh

prepare_notebooks_for_ci.py script will add VCR cassette context manager for each cell in the notebook, so that:

  • when the notebook is run for the first time, cells with network requests will be recorded to a VCR cassette file
  • when the notebook is run subsequently, the cells with network requests will be replayed from the cassettes

Adding new notebooks

If you are adding a notebook with API requests, it's recommended to record network requests so that they can be subsequently replayed. If this is not done, the notebook runner will make API requests every time the notebook is run, which can be costly and slow.

To record network requests, please make sure to first run prepare_notebooks_for_ci.py script.

Then, run

jupyter execute <path_to_notebook>

Once the notebook is executed, you should see the new VCR cassettes recorded in cassettes directory and discard the updated notebook.

Updating existing notebooks

If you are updating an existing notebook, please make sure to remove any existing cassettes for the notebook in cassettes directory (each cassette is prefixed with the notebook name), and then run the steps from the "Adding new notebooks" section above.

To delete cassettes for a notebook, you can run:

rm cassettes/<notebook_name>*