Run AnythingLLM on Cloud using Docker
Running AnythingLLM on a cloud service is the best way to run a private multi-user instance of AnythingLLM with full control.
Easy Cloud Deployment
AnythingLLM offers easily integrated one-click docker deployment templates with Railway (opens in a new tab) and Render (opens in a new tab).
This is the easiest way to self-host a cloud server version of AnythingLLM
| Provider | Minimum Instance size |
|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | t3.small |
| Google Cloud Provider | e2-standard-2 |
| Azure Cloud | B2ps v2 |
AnythingLLM offers community-maintained deployment templates for cloud providers https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/tree/master/cloud-deployments (opens in a new tab)
Once you are prepared to run AnythingLLM on your server the process is quite simple.
You should provision a folder somewhere on the host machine so that you can re-pull the latest versions of AnythingLLM and persist data between container rebuilds.
BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
The Mintplex Labs team takes great care to ensure AnythingLLM is always backward compatible.
In the event this changes you will be alerted via code, deployment, or our regular communication channels on social, Discord, and email.
Note --cap-add SYS_ADMIN is a required command if you want to scrape
webpages. We use PuppeeteerJS (opens in a new tab) to
scrape websites links and --cap-add SYS_ADMIN lets us use sandboxed Chromium
across all runtimes for best security practices.
# Assuming that you want to store app data in a folder at /var/lib/anythingllm
# Pull in the latest image
docker pull mintplexlabs/anythingllm:master
export STORAGE_LOCATION="/var/lib/anythingllm" && \
mkdir -p $STORAGE_LOCATION && \
touch "$STORAGE_LOCATION/.env" && \
docker run -d -p 3001:3001 \ # expose on port 3001 (can be any host port)
--cap-add SYS_ADMIN \
-v ${STORAGE_LOCATION}:/app/server/storage \
-v ${STORAGE_LOCATION}/.env:/app/server/.env \
-e STORAGE_DIR="/app/server/storage" \
mintplexlabs/anythingllm:master
# visit http://localhost:3001 to use AnythingLLM!Done! You are using AnythingLLM!