Running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally has become increasingly popular for development, privacy, and offline testing. Ollama makes this incredibly straightforward, allowing you to run models like Llama 3 or Mistral directly on your machine.
By leveraging Podman on Fedora Linux, you can isolate Ollama inside a container. This approach keeps your host system clean while making it effortless to spin up, manage, and tear down your AI development environment.
What is Ollama?
Ollama is an open-source framework designed for running, creating, and sharing large language models. It packages model weights, configuration, and data into a unified management system. Running it inside a container means you don’t have to deal with complex local dependencies, Python environments, or complex GPU driver configurations on your base OS.
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