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Self-Hosting Bitwarden

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  • set up a vps
  • enable firewall - allow http, https, ssh
  • Install docker
# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

sudo docker run hello-world

sudo groupadd docker

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

newgrp docker

docker run hello-world
  • install docker compose
curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.33.1/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  • create a bitwarden and user dir
sudo adduser bitwarden
sudo passwd bitwarden
sudo usermod -aG docker bitwarden
sudo mkdir /opt/bitwarden
sudo chmod -R 700 /opt/bitwarden
sudo chown -R bitwarden:bitwarden /opt/bitwarden
usermod -aG sudo bitwarden 
cd /home/bitwarden
mkdir -p .ssh
touch .ssh/authorized_keys
ssh bitwarden@ip_addres0s