Creating an Open WebUI instance

This guide covers the deployment of a self-hosted Open WebUI service.

To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps & Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Open WebUI box and click the green View button.

You will see the Open WebUI information page, where you can learn more about its features and system requirements. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The Open WebUI application is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, and a keypair for it.

Select a security group that allows incoming connections to port 80/TCP, and choose a network to connect the service to.

Then, read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes some minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the Open WebUI Heat stack row. The animated icon on the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle.

Logging into the Open WebUI dashboard

First off, you have to know Open WebUI’s public URL. Go to the Provisioned Apps pane, click on the Open WebUI row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

In the public_url row, click the icon in the Action column. A pop-up window appears. Click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the URL displayed in the Output box to the clipboard. Jot it down somewhere, or create a new bookmark off of it. Close the pop-up window by clicking on the Back button.

On a new browser tab or window, visit the Open WebUI’s welcome page and click on the Get started link at the bottom.

On the next page, create a new admin user; type in a Name, an Email, and a Password, then click on the Create Admin Account button.

The Open WebUI dashboard appears. Visit the official tutorials page to start learning how you can use your new self-hosted AI interface.