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Blog post series on Ollama to exploit it well

Published 10 days ago • 1 min read

Ollama blog post series

A series of four blog posts about Ollama, its commands, and APIs. How to run Ollama and WebUI in Docker.

The world of AI has been hyped for more than two years, since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022 and recently with the release of Deep Seek R1. Ollama is an open-source tool mainly written in Go that runs open LLMs on your local machine (or a server). It is a user-friendly and powerful software for running LLMs locally. It hides the complexities of LLMs, packaging them to be accessible and easily customizable.
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In the blog post series for Ollama, you will learn about what Ollama is, its features, and how to run it. Then, you will learn about the commands Ollama provides and how its APIs function. Finally, you will learn how to run Ollama with Open Web UI in Docker with Docker Compose to create your own mini ChatGPT that runs offline.

Recent articles

What is Ollama and how to use it: a quick guide [Part 1]

Learn about Ollama, its features, and how to run it on your local machine with DeepSeek R1 and Smollm2 models.

Ollama commands: How to use Ollama in the command line [Part 2]

Learn about the important Ollama commands to run Ollama on your local machine with Smollm2 and Qwen 2.5 models.

Using Ollama APIs to generate responses and much more [Part 3]

Learn how to use Ollama APIs like generate, chat, and more like list model, pull model, etc, with cURL and Jq with useful examples

How to use Ollama and Open WebUI with Docker Compose [Part 4]

Learn to use Ollama and Open WebUI inside Docker with Docker Compose to run any open LLM and create your own mini ChatGPT.

If you want to deploy Ollama on the Cloud, there is also another post how How to run Ollama on Google Cloud Run, a step-by-step guide. I hope you learn more things about Gen AI, LLMs and Ollama with the above blog post series, cheers 🥂!

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