one thing I'm not willing to self host is vault/bitwarden. My whole life is based in my password manager. I imagine Bitwarden inc has a lot better security than me, and if I lose access to it I'm stuffed.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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What are they going to get an encrypted blob.
Had this exact thing happen to me. I was hosting vaultwarden on a raspberry pi and then it fell over. My client devices had caged versions of my vault, but I couldn’t make changes to it. I quickly moved over to Bitwarden and it’s been fantastic.
yup, BW is awesome. and mostly free. I use BW too, but not self hosted.
Already updated yesterday 🤓 All hail the mighty renovate
Renovate?
I have all my compose stacks in git. They're deployed from their git repos with Komodo.
Renovate is a bot that checks git repos for dependencies (mostly container images in this case) and checks if there's a newer version available. If yes, it creates a merge request to update the version. I review the requests and merge, then the updated compose stack gets deployed with Komodo. It's a great semi automatic way to handle updates without giving up control.
There's a nice how to here: https://nickcunningh.am/blog/how-to-automate-version-updates-for-your-self-hosted-docker-containers-with-gitea-renovate-and-komodo
It's a bot to create PR's with dependency updates
Might be a stupid question, but how are PR's connected to your server deployment?
Copying my other comment. It opens PRs to change the tag from the docker image.
I have all my compose stacks in git. They’re deployed from their git repos with Komodo.
Renovate is a bot that checks git repos for dependencies (mostly container images in this case) and checks if there’s a newer version available. If yes, it creates a merge request to update the version. I review the requests and merge, then the updated compose stack gets deployed with Komodo. It’s a great semi automatic way to handle updates without giving up control.
There’s a nice how to here: https://nickcunningh.am/blog/how-to-automate-version-updates-for-your-self-hosted-docker-containers-with-gitea-renovate-and-komodo
Renovate? Hrmmmm
Hrmmm?