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By Renato Dinis | Build With AIyoutube
View original on youtubeOpenClaw runs in Docker but defaults to cloud endpoints. To use local Ollama instead, you need to swap the configuration from cloud to local. This is a critical post-deployment step often overlooked when containerizing AI applications.
Key Points
- •Docker container startup doesn't guarantee correct configuration—verify endpoint settings
- •OpenClaw defaults to cloud API endpoints even when running locally in containers
- •Must explicitly configure OpenClaw to point to local Ollama instead of cloud services
- •Configuration swap is required after container deployment to use local LLM inference
- •Check config files/environment variables to redirect from cloud to localhost Ollama endpoints
- •Local Ollama setup requires proper networking between Docker container and host/Ollama service
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