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A close-up of a vintage printed road map around Paris, where places sit at fixed positions and the ones near each other on the paper are near each other in fact

AI & ML 6 min

How to Self-Host Qdrant in Docker

Every retrieval tutorial says "point it at your vector database" and none of them tells you how to run one. One containe...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Aug

A wall of stacked shipping containers seen flat-on, forming a grid of doors in pale green and grey

AI & ML 23 min

Serve an LLM with vLLM on CPU in Docker: Learn the Production Engine Without a GPU (2026)

We ran vLLM v0.25.1's official CPU image in Docker on Apple Silicon, dodged a 10 GB CUDA decoy, survived three traps, an...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 23 Jul

Watercolour paints and brushes arranged on a surface.

AI & ML 16 min

Run ComfyUI on CPU in Docker: Node-Graph Image Generation Without a GPU (2026)

We pinned ComfyUI v0.28.0 in a python:3.13-slim container, hit a torchaudio ABI trap and an 8 GB OOM kill, and still ren...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Jul

Multiple railway tracks with signals and buildings in an urban setting during the day.

AI & ML 14 min

Self-Host LiteLLM with Docker: One OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint for Every Model (2026)

We ran LiteLLM v1.93.0 against a local Ollama model in Docker: pinned tags, a 4-line config, token metering, and the wro...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Jul

A black and white close-up of a studio microphone.

AI & ML 15 min

How to Transcribe Speech Offline with whisper.cpp in Docker (2026)

We ran whisper.cpp v1.9.1 in Docker: an amd64-only tag trap, a SIGILL crash, a gcc fp16 build fix — then 7.3 s of speech...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Jul

A software developer working at a computer.

AI & ML 17 min

How to Run Aider With a Local Ollama Model in Docker (2026)

We ran aider v0.86.2 in Docker against a 986 MB local Qwen model. Same prompt twice: one hallucinated diff, one clean au...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Jul

A close-up of a white llama with fluffy fur under a bright blue sky.

AI & ML 17 min

How to Self-Host AnythingLLM with Docker and Ollama (2026)

We self-hosted AnythingLLM 1.15.0 with Docker and Ollama, embedded a document over the API, and got cited RAG answers fr...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Jul

An octopus clinging to a rocky surface underwater, its tentacles and skin texture visible.

AI & ML 18 min

How to Self-Host the AutoGPT Platform with Docker (2026)

We self-hosted the AutoGPT Platform v0.6.68 with Docker on a busy dev Mac: 17 containers, two port collisions, and a fir...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Jul

A fibre patch panel dense with teal cables — visual flows, wired together

AI & ML 16 min

Self-Host Langflow with Docker: The Visual Agent Builder, Locked Down (2026)

We ran Langflow 1.10.2 in a single Docker container, hit its fail-closed auth gate, fixed it with explicit superuser cre...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Jul

Colourful building blocks on a wooden floor — Dify assembles LLM apps from visual blocks

AI & ML 16 min

Self-Host Dify with Docker Compose: 15 Containers to Your Own LLM App Studio (2026)

We deployed Dify 1.16.0 on Docker Desktop, hit a real port clash, wired DeepSeek, and built a working chatflow — every c...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Jul

Rack server rear ports with a patch cable — your private chat stack runs on hardware you control

AI & ML 15 min

Run a Private ChatGPT in Docker: Open WebUI + Ollama (2026)

We wired Open WebUI v0.10.2 to Ollama 0.32.1 in two pinned Docker containers, hit one tools-support snag, and caught a t...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Jul

Lobsters in an aquarium tank — OpenClaw in a Docker box, the tank for the lobster

AI & ML 18 min

How to Self-Host OpenClaw in Docker (2026): Run the 383k-Star AI Agent in a Box

We ran OpenClaw 2026.7.1 in Docker on an Apple Silicon Mac: one setup script, a DeepSeek model, two real config fixes, a...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Jul