Self-Hosting Bitwarden on DigitalOcean

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,318 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

> Bitwarden requires at least 2GB of RAM, so make sure to choose a plan with enough memory during creation

Yeah, I recalled that for-real Bitwarden uses dotnet and mssql so I'm sure Digital Ocean loves the situation where someone needs a huge instance

I was curious given the mention of "docker-compose" how exactly that worked (did it have them set with "restart: always" and similar operational sanity?) but while digging into it:

Having a self-modifying script that curls from some malware-looking domain defeats the purpose of having tagged scripts, doesn't it? https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/v1.48.1/scripts/bit...

Don't worry, even the redirected "self-host" version does the same trick for inexplicable reasons: https://github.com/bitwarden/self-host/blob/master/bitwarden...

I never found the docker-compose files, so I guess their emitted as a side-effect of running the "bitwarden/setup" docker image or something: https://github.com/bitwarden/self-host/blob/master/run.sh#L1...

• self-host

  10 285 8.5 Shell

  Bitwarden's self-hosted release repository (by bitwarden)

  

> Bitwarden requires at least 2GB of RAM, so make sure to choose a plan with enough memory during creation

Yeah, I recalled that for-real Bitwarden uses dotnet and mssql so I'm sure Digital Ocean loves the situation where someone needs a huge instance

I was curious given the mention of "docker-compose" how exactly that worked (did it have them set with "restart: always" and similar operational sanity?) but while digging into it:

Having a self-modifying script that curls from some malware-looking domain defeats the purpose of having tagged scripts, doesn't it? https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/v1.48.1/scripts/bit...

Don't worry, even the redirected "self-host" version does the same trick for inexplicable reasons: https://github.com/bitwarden/self-host/blob/master/bitwarden...

I never found the docker-compose files, so I guess their emitted as a side-effect of running the "bitwarden/setup" docker image or something: https://github.com/bitwarden/self-host/blob/master/run.sh#L1...

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• vaultwarden

  489 32,926 8.8 Rust

  Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

Wow. This is insanely shitty if you ask me. I can't think of any non-malicious reason why it's done this way.

I recommend using vaultwarden instead to self-host bitwarden: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

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