DeepSeek

Deploy DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen bundled with Open WebUI. DeepSeek is a family of distilled open-weight reasoning models based on Qwen2.5. Open WebUI provides a web-based chat interface for interacting with the models.

During deployment, you can choose between three model sizes: 7B (default), 14B, or 32B. All models are released under the MIT license.

1. Deploy DeepSeek

 Estimated deployment time: 5–10 minutes

Base distribution and plan

• Supported distribution: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Recommended plans:
  • For DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B (default): Any 1-GPU instance (16GB RAM minimum)
  • For DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B: Any 2-GPU instance or higher (32GB RAM minimum)
  • For DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B: Any 4-GPU instance (128GB RAM minimum)

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This app works only with Akamai GPU instances. If you choose a plan other than GPUs, provisioning will fail, and a notice will appear in the Lish console.

Configuration options

StackScript ID: 2025976

Notes:

• After the app deployment completes, the passwords for your Open WebUI admin user and limited sudo user are generated and stored in the .credentials file in the home directory. Log in to your instance as root through the Lish console or SSH, then run cat /home/$USERNAME/.credentials to view its contents.
• You can automatically configure a custom domain (optional) during deployment. To do that:
  1. First, configure your domain to use Linode’s name servers via your registrar. See Configure your domain's authoritative name servers for details.
  2. Once you complete that, specify the Linode API token, subdomain, and domain for the app in Cloud Manager or via API/CLI/Terraform.

Use API, CLI, or Terraform

curl --location 'https://api.linode.com/v4/linode/instances' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Accept: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer abc123def456hij789klm' \
    --data-raw '{
        "region": "us-east",
        "type": "g6-standard-2",
        "image": "linode/ubuntu24.04",
        "label": "my-deepseek-one-click-app",
        "root_pass": "@C0mpl3x#P@ssw0rd",
        "stackscript_id": 2025976,
        "stackscript_data": {
            "user_name":"jsmith",
            "soa_email_address":"jsmith@example.com",
            "openwebui_login_name":"jsmith-admin",
            "openwebui_login_email":"jsmith-admin@example.com"
        }
    }'

linode-cli linodes create \
    --region us-east \
    --type g6-standard-2 \
    --label my-deepseek-one-click-app \
    --image linode/ubuntu24.04 \
    --root_pass @C0mpl3x#P@ssw0rd \
    --stackscript_id 2025976 \
    --stackscript_data '{"user_name":"jsmith", "soa_email_address":"jsmith@example.com", "openwebui_login_name":"jsmith-admin", "openwebui_login_email":"jsmith-admin@example.com"}'

resource "linode_instance" "my-linode" {
    region         = "us-east"
    type           = "g6-standard-2"
    label          = "my-deepseek-one-click-app"
    image          = "linode/ubuntu24.04"
    root_pass      = "@C0mpl3x#P@ssw0rd"
    stackscript_id = 2025976
    stackscript_data = {
        "user_name"             = "jsmith"
        "soa_email_address"     = "jsmith@example.com"
        "openwebui_login_name"  = "jsmith-admin"
        "openwebui_login_email" = "jsmith-admin@example.com"
    }
}

2. Access Open WebUI

Once your app has finished deploying, you can log in to the Open WebUI interface using your browser.

1. Log in to the instance as your limited sudo user, using the sudo username you created and the instance’s IPv4 address. For example:

   Bash

   ssh jsmith@12.123.123.123

2. Upon logging in to the instance, a banner appears containing the app's URL. Copy the URL and paste it into your browser.

3. On the Open WebUI login page, provide the email and password that you can find in the .credentials file in the home directory.

   To see the password, run the sudo cat /home/$USERNAME/.credentials command in the terminal.

4. After successfully logging in, you should see the Release Notes page. Click the Okay, Let’s Go! button on that page to start using the Open WebUI chat feature.

Additional resources

For more information about the installed packages, see their official documentation.

• Open WebUI Documentation
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B on Hugging Face
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B on Hugging Face
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B on Hugging Face