Run AnythingLLM on cloud service

Running AnythingLLM on a cloud service is the best way to run a private multi-user instance of AnythingLLM with full control.

The easiest way to install AnythingLLM is to use Docker on your server. Running AnythingLLM outside of a container is out of the scope of this documentation.

Provider	Minimum Instance size
Amazon Web Services	t2.small, 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

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.

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.

# 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 \ # So you can scrape website URLs for information!
-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!