Vaultwarden
Open SourceShow HN 2018Lightweight Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
Formerly bitwarden_rs, Vaultwarden is a lightweight implementation of the Bitwarden API in Rust, requiring less than 50MB of RAM to run an entire password vault.
99.5Score
- Mentions
- 2,150
- Discussers
- 1,420
- positive
- 98%
Hacker News Consensus & Insights
Synthesized from developer and community discussions across multiple years.
Why Hackers Love It
- Incredibly lightweight (<50MB RAM compared to official 2GB+ stack)
- Fully compatible with official Bitwarden apps, browser extensions, and CLIs
- Single binary / Docker container with SQLite or MySQL backends
Common Concerns & Tradeoffs
- Requires setting up own HTTPS certificates and backup strategy
Ideal for: Homelab users who want complete sovereignty over their credentials.
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@steveklabnik•9/3/2021
Original post ↗Thread: Ask HN: What self-hosted services are you running?
“Vaultwarden on a 5 dollar VPS or Raspberry Pi with Tailscale is the gold standard for personal password storage.”