Open-WebUI + Ollama Guide: Run LLMs Locally with Docker

Short summary

Run private LLMs locally with Open-WebUI and Ollama using Docker Compose, eliminating third-party privacy risks. The guide addresses common self-hosting challenges including Docker networking to avoid localhost errors, GPU optimization for Linux, memory constraints on 8GB systems, and security hardening with SSL and authentication. Includes detailed troubleshooting for connection failures, out-of-memory errors, and strategies for deploying on resource-limited hardware.

• •Deploy Open-WebUI and Ollama in Docker Compose with proper internal DNS routing to eliminate localhost connection errors
• •Optimize GPU detection, memory usage on 8GB systems, and harden security with SSL and authentication
• •Troubleshoot connection failures, out-of-memory errors, and select appropriately-sized models for your hardware

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