Getting Started Self-hosting
Bitwarden provides users the option to choose between hosting their Bitwarden products in a cloud-based environment or self-hosted environment. The Bitwarden Password Manager and Secrets Manager products are fully scalable and easily deployed, allowing users and organizations to choose the security solution to meet their specific needs. On-premises hosting is available for the Bitwarden Password Manager and Secrets Manager products.
Hosting Bitwarden on-premises allows for individualized control and customization of your Bitwarden data. Whether you are an individual user that wants more control over your own data, or a business organization with policies that require your data to be kept on-promise. Self-hosting will let you enjoy using Bitwarden on your own servers with no dependency on Bitwarden's cloud-hosted servers.
An on-premise instance of Bitwarden will include all of Bitwarden's core features associated with a Bitwarden free plan. For Premium features and Bitwarden premium users, this will require you to provide a premium member license. Similarly, Enterprise organizations accounts will require an organization license in order to access on a self-hosted Bitwarden instance.
To learn more about Bitwarden's premium features, see password manager plans.
Before self-hosting Bitwarden, there are a few important considerations to help make the right choice for your individual or organizational needs:
Self hosting involves deploying and managing the software applications on you or your organizations own infrastructure. Do you and your organization have the resources to maintain and expand the software once configured?
Do you or your organization have the required knowledge to setup and maintain the software instance? The software infrastructure and troubleshooting will be the responsibility of you and your team to maintain.
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For around the clock support with your Bitwarden instance or organization, please contact Bitwarden support.
Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
Memory | 2GB RAM | 4GB RAM |
Storage | 12GB | 25GB |
Docker Version | Engine 19+ and Compose 1.24+ | Engine 19+ and Compose 1.24+ |
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For processor requirements, see the individual installation guides provided for your platform.
To get started self-hosting with Bitwarden, see the Bitwarden install & deploy guides for:
Linux, Linux manual deployment, Linux offline deployment, Windows, Windows offline deployment, and the Bitwarden Unified deployment (Beta).
Azure AKS deployment, OpenShift deployment, and AWS EKS deployment.
The guides provided will walk you through the setup and installation of your own Bitwarden instance.
Once your organization has been setup, Teams and Enterprise users can see additional information to Self-host an Organization.
Software support release documentation
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