Bitwarden
★ 19.9kA self-hosted alternative to 1password
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall3 Containers — 3 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · SourceNo external DB17 documented maintainers
About
Bitwarden Server is the backend project for Bitwarden’s client ecosystem. It contains the APIs, database, and supporting infrastructure used by Bitwarden applications, and is intended for developers...
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Features
- backend APIs
- database
- core infrastructure
- cross-platform deployment
- production container images
- SCIM
- SSO
- billing services
- notifications
Details
- Last Updated
- Aug 26, 2026
- Created
- Nov 23, 2015
- Install Methods
- dockersource
- Requirements
- DockerDocker ComposeC#.NET CoreASP.NET CoreSQL Server
- Authentication
- oidc-ssosamlldap
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerC#
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓3 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 3 containers
Docker Compose
3 services · 2 unclassified (dotnet, mailcatcher)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (5 volumes)
.devcontainer/bitwarden_common/docker-compose.yml · @ 571f880 · scanned Jun 26, 2026
services:
bitwarden_server:
image: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/dotnet:10.0
volumes:
- ../../:/workspace:cached
env_file:
- path: ../../dev/.env
required: false
# Overrides default command so things don't shut down after the process ends.
command: sleep infinity
bitwarden_mssql:
image: mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2025-latest
platform: linux/amd64
restart: unless-stopped
env_file:
- path: ../../dev/.env
required: false
environment:
ACCEPT_EULA: "Y"
# ...
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