Conn3x releases a one-click private RAG deployment tutorial
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Conn3x has released a tutorial explaining how to deploy Ollama and Qdrant on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu 24.04 droplet with a single conn3x apply command to form a private RAG environment. Both listen only on 127.0.0.1 and must be accessed through an SSH tunnel. Prerequisites are Conn3x v0.6.7 or later, a DigitalOcean token with write permissions, an SSH key pair, and curl and jq installed locally. At DigitalOcean's October 2026 pricing, an s-2vcpu-4gb droplet costs $24 per month or $0.03571 per hour; it runs on CPU only and does not support GPUs. The tutorial notes that after deployment the droplet will continue to be billed until it is deleted with conn3x destroy.
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Conn3x now has circuits for Ollama and Qdrant, and its Ollama repo includes an example that builds a private retrieval-augmented generation box on a DigitalOcean droplet with a single conn3x apply. The setup runs Ollama and Qdrant on loopback only, with SSH as the sole open port, and the post walks through storing a note, querying it by meaning, and having qwen2.5:0.5b answer. The author reports 101 resources applied in 2 minutes 36 seconds, a clean second plan, and a 41-second destroy.
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