Projects VS vaultwarden

Now that I had decided on setting up Bitwarden, I had to build an AWS environment to run it on. I decided to do this in Terraform, as it lets me document Infrastructure-as-Code, and makes it easy to set up and tear down. I've put all of the code needed with instructions and minimal tweaks in this Github project folder for others to use as well, if it is helpful.

Here is a project I did where I included the Python code, and got Terraform to zip the code and upload to Lambda. I did create the Lambda Layer manually with all the dependencies though.

Add it to the API Gateway Stage. Here is my Terraform code on how I did it. You should be able to add it manually though under Access Log Settings. More info in this article.

Here's an example from a project I did that may help. You'll need:

The README.md on the Github page is also extremely detailed, so I'd recommend reading through that as well.

I'd also recommend adding some print statements to your Lambda function so the data shows up in Cloudwatch. You can see how I did this here. I added some specific cases and responses (and I used print statements for debugging in CloudWatch). Instead of just return fizz, add multiple cases, status codes, and print log lines so they show up in CloudWatch.

To people who want to self-host this, look at Vaultwarden which is a fully compatible alternate server with even more features:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Been running it for a year with 0 issues.

For passwords and 2FA I use Bitwarden in combination with a self-hosted Vaultwarden service (for imcreased security and use of pro features for free).

Vaultwarden as Password-Safe

I have a lot of software that I host myself on my home server, partly to save money but also because I want to control my own data. For example, I host VaultWarden which is the open source server for BitWarden. This gives me all the premium features for free with the added bonus of keeping my passwords out of the cloud.

Self hosting is incredibly easy with vaultwarden (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)

I have now switched to using the BitWarden app with the self-hosted VaultWarden server. I have set it up, so my passwords are only accessible when connected to my home network either physically or with a VPN (I am using tailscale for this).