Chainguard Container for open-webui

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/open-webui:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

This image is comparable to the open-webui/open-webui image available from GitHub Container Registry. Switching to the Chainguard image should not require any changes to your existing setup.

Getting Started

Docker

You can run Open WebUI with Docker using the following command:

docker run -d \
  --name open-webui \
  -p 3000:8080 \
  -v open-webui-data:/app/backend/data \
  cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/open-webui:latest

Docker Compose

Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content:

version: '3'

services:
  open-webui:
    image: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/open-webui:latest
    container_name: open-webui
    ports:
      - 3000:8080
    volumes:
      - open-webui-data:/app/backend/data
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  open-webui-data:

Run the container with:

docker-compose up -d

Helm/Kubernetes

Open WebUI provides official Helm charts for Kubernetes deployment. You can deploy Open WebUI with the Chainguard image using these steps:

1. Add the Open WebUI Helm repository:

   helm repo add open-webui https://helm.openwebui.com/
   helm repo update

2. Create a values.yaml file to configure the deployment with the Chainguard image:

   image:
   repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/open-webui
   tag: latest
   pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   
   # Configure persistence if needed
   persistence:
   enabled: true
   size: 2Gi

3. Install the Open WebUI Helm chart:

   helm upgrade --install open-webui open-webui/open-webui \
   --namespace open-webui --create-namespace \
   --values values.yaml

4. Access Open WebUI:

   # Port forward to access the UI
   kubectl port-forward -n open-webui svc/open-webui 3000:80

Open WebUI will be available at http://localhost:3000

Configuration

Open WebUI will be available at http://localhost:3000 after startup. Follow the web interface instructions to connect to your LLM provider (Ollama, OpenAI API, etc.).

Documentation and Resources

• Official Open WebUI repository
• Open WebUI Documentation

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.

In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a -dev variant.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.

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