How to Deploy Open WebUI with Secure OpenAI API Integration, Public Tunneling, and Browser-Based Chat Access
In this tutorial, we build a complete Open WebUI setup in Colab, in a practical, hands-on way, using Python. We begin by installing the required dependencies, then securely provide our OpenAI API key through terminal-based secret input so that sensitive credentials are not exposed directly in the notebook. From there, we configure the environment variables needed for Open WebUI to communicate with the OpenAI API, define a default model, prepare a data directory for runtime storage, and launch […]