# Appwrite Open Source Backend as a Service Platform

> Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted backend platform that provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and realtime APIs out of the box. It serves as a privacy-first alternative to Firebase and Supabase, packaged as Docker microservices for full data ownership.

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# Appwrite Open Source Backend as a Service Platform

Appwrite is an open-source, self-hosted backend platform that provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, and realtime APIs out of the box. It serves as a privacy-first alternative to Firebase and Supabase, packaged as Docker microservices for full data ownership.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker run -it --rm \
- docker run -it --rm ^
- docker run -it --rm

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Appwrite is designed to run in a containerized environment. Running your server is as easy as running one command from your terminal. You can either run Appwrite on your localhost using docker-compose or on any other...
- Before running the installation command, make sure you have [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) installed on your machine:
- --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- **[Appwrite Functions](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/functions)** - Serverless compute platform to run custom backend logic in isolated runtimes, triggered by events or scheduled jobs.15 runtimes supported.
- The easiest way to get started with Appwrite is by [signing up for Appwrite Cloud](https://cloud.appwrite.io/). While Appwrite Cloud is in public beta, you can build with Appwrite completely free, and we won't collect...

- Source: https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appwrite/appwrite/HEAD/README.md

## Source

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