Self-host

How to deploy and operate your own instance. Notarium is a single self-contained container: the engine runs inside it, with no external services, and all state lives in one /data volume. Zero-config is all you need to get started.

In this section

• Installation — the container, the /data volume, first run.
• Configuration — environment variables.
• Authentication — password / none modes.
• Enabling semantic search — vector search.
• Database — SQLite or Postgres, schema migrations.
• Production — reverse proxy, trusting the client IP, limits.
• Backup and restore — online backup, verification, restoring into a clean volume.
• Image CLI — the start, backup, restore, admin, healthcheck, and version commands.