# Serving private and gated models If the model you wish to serve is behind gated access or resides in a private model repository on Hugging Face Hub, you will need to have access to the model to serve it. Once you have confirmed that you have access to the model: - Navigate to your account's [Profile | Settings | Access Tokens page](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens). - Generate and copy a read token. If you're the CLI, set the `HF_TOKEN` environment variable. For example: ```shell export HF_TOKEN= ``` Alternatively, you can provide the token when deploying the model with Docker: ```shell model= volume=$PWD/data token= docker run --gpus all -e HF_TOKEN=$token -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data --pull always ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cuda-1.9 --model-id $model ```