Running Claude-Style Coding Models Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI
TL;DR You can run Claude-quality coding models on your own hardware using Ollama and Open WebUI, keeping your code and conversations completely private. This guide walks you through deploying models like DeepSeek Coder, Qwen2.5-Coder, and CodeLlama that rival proprietary services for code generation, debugging, and refactoring tasks. The setup requires a Linux machine with at least 16GB RAM for 7B models or 32GB+ for 34B models. You’ll install Ollama as the model runtime, pull coding-focused models, then connect Open WebUI as your chat interface. The entire stack runs locally—no API keys, no data leaving your network. ...