dani-garcia / vaultwarden

[!IMPORTANT] The web-vault requires the use of HTTPS and a secure context for the Web Crypto API. That means it will only work if you enable HTTPS. We also suggest to use a reverse proxy.

The recommended way to install and use Vaultwarden is via our container images which are published to ghcr.io, docker.io and quay.io. See which container image to use for an explanation of the provided tags.

There are also community driven packages which can be used, but those might be lagging behind the latest version or might deviate in the way Vaultwarden is configured, as described in our Wiki.

Alternatively, you can also build Vaultwarden yourself.

While Vaultwarden is based upon the Rocket web framework which has built-in support for TLS our recommendation would be that you setup a reverse proxy (see proxy examples).

[!TIP] For more detailed examples on how to install, use and configure Vaultwarden you can check our Wiki.

Docker/Podman CLI

Pull the container image and mount a volume from the host for persistent storage. You can replace docker with podman if you prefer to use podman.

docker pull vaultwarden/server:latest
docker run --detach --name vaultwarden \
  --env DOMAIN="https://vw.domain.tld" \
  --volume /vw-data/:/data/ \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --publish 127.0.0.1:8000:80 \
  vaultwarden/server:latest

This will preserve any persistent data under /vw-data/, you can adapt the path to whatever suits you.

Docker Compose

To use Docker compose you need to create a compose.yaml which will hold the configuration to run the Vaultwarden container.

services:
  vaultwarden:
    image: vaultwarden/server:latest
    container_name: vaultwarden
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      DOMAIN: "https://vw.domain.tld"
    volumes:
      - ./vw-data/:/data/
    ports:
      - 127.0.0.1:8000:80