Hermes Agent Template on Vertra Cloud: AI Agent with a Panel and Channels

An AI agent that learns from use, with a web panel, an optional browser chat and messaging channels. The template runs Hermes Agent v0.22.5 behind a single login. You bring the model key: Vertra Cloud does not host a model.

Step-by-step guide: Hermes Agent from the key to your channels

Provider key, Telegram, Discord, Slack and WhatsApp, the panel login, browser chat and changing the model.

What it creates

One app (image). Memory: 1.5 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended. It needs a plan with Docker images and one free image slot; see Plans and limits.

What the wizard asks

Question	What it does
Model provider	OpenRouter (default), Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Provider API key	Kept only in the app’s encrypted variables.
Base URL and model	The URL only with a compatible endpoint (ends in `/v1`). Empty model means the provider’s default; required with a compatible endpoint.
Browser chat (Hermes WebUI)	Optional; about 150 MB of memory more.
Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, email	Each asks for credentials and the list of people allowed to talk to the agent.

What you get

The panel at <address>/admin/, the user admin and a generated password shown once, and the next step. WhatsApp is paired by QR code in the panel.

Variables

Variable	What it does
`HERMES_ADMIN_USER`, `HERMES_ADMIN_PASSWORD`	The single login (`admin` and the generated password).
`HERMES_WEBUI`	`true` or `false`: the browser chat.
`HERMES_MODEL_PROVIDER`, `HERMES_MODEL`, `HERMES_MODEL_CUSTOM`, `HERMES_BASE_URL`	Provider and model, applied on every start.
`OPENROUTER_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `GEMINI_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_COMPAT_API_KEY`	The chosen provider’s key.
`TELEGRAM_`, `DISCORD_`, `SLACK_`, `WHATSAPP_`, `EMAIL_*`	Each channel’s credentials and allowed list.

Resources and limits

Port 8080. First boot 15 to 30 seconds; later starts about 15 seconds.
State in /app/.hermes. The image is large, so the first deploy takes longer.
Zero-downtime deploy is off; rollback returns the state too.
An invalid channel token shows in the app log: do not share it.

License

Hermes Agent is distributed under the MIT license. The optional chat is Hermes WebUI (MIT) and the login proxy is Caddy (Apache-2.0). This template is a Vertra Cloud packaging and is not affiliated with the project. See also the public page and the other official templates.

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Hermes Agent Template on Vertra Cloud: AI Agent with a Panel and Channels

Step-by-step guide: Hermes Agent from the key to your channels

What it creates

What the wizard asks

What you get

Variables

Resources and limits

License

Step-by-step guide: Hermes Agent from the key to your channels

​What it creates

​What the wizard asks

​What you get

​Variables

​Resources and limits

​License

What it creates

What the wizard asks

What you get

Variables

Resources and limits

License