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Deploy Tabby in Air-Gapped Environment with Docker

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Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang
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Are you working in an air-gapped environment, and wondering if you can still deploy Tabby? Fear not, because the answer is YES! 🐱📣

Prerequisite📋​

  • Docker installed on both the internet-connected computer and the offline computer.

Offline Deployment Guide🐾​

Here's how we'll deploy Tabby in an offline environment:

  • Create a Docker image on a computer with internet access.
  • Transfer the image to your offline computer.
  • Run the Docker image and let Tabby work its magic! ✨

Now, let's dive into the detailed steps:

  1. Create a new Dockerfile on a computer with internet access.
FROM tabbyml/tabby

ENV TABBY_MODEL_CACHE_ROOT=/models

RUN /opt/tabby/bin/tabby-cpu download --model StarCoder-1B
RUN /opt/tabby/bin/tabby-cpu download --model Nomic-Embed-Text

The TABBY_MODEL_CACHE_ROOT env var sets the directory for saving downloaded models. By setting ENV TABBY_MODEL_CACHE_ROOT=/models, we instruct Tabby to save the downloaded model files in the /models directory within the Docker container during the build process.

  1. Build the Docker image which containing the model
docker build -t tabby-offline .
  1. Save the Docker image to a tar file:
docker save -o tabby-offline.tar tabby-offline

  1. Copy the tabby-offline.tar file to the computer without internet access.

  2. Load the Docker image from the tar file:

docker load -i tabby-offline.tar
  1. Run the Tabby container
docker run -it \
  --gpus all -p 8080:8080 -v $HOME/.tabby:/data \
  tabby-offline \
  serve --model StarCoder-1B --device cuda

Once the container is running successfully, you should see the CLI output similar to the screenshot below:

Tabby Cli Output

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