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+# Run AnythingLLM in production without Docker
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> This method of deployment is **not supported** by the core-team and is to be used as a reference for your deployment.
+> You are fully responsible for securing your deployment and data in this mode.
+> **Any issues** experienced from bare-metal or non-containerized deployments will be **not** answered or supported.
+
+Here you can find the scripts and known working process to run AnythingLLM outside of a Docker container. This method of deployment is preferable for those using local LLMs and want native performance on their devices.
+
+### Minimum Requirements
+> [!TIP]
+> You should aim for at least 2GB of RAM. Disk storage is proportional to however much data
+> you will be storing (documents, vectors, models, etc). Minimum 10GB recommended.
+
+- NodeJS v18
+- Yarn
+
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Clone the repo into your server as the user who the application will run as.
+`git clone git@github.com:Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm.git`
+
+2. `cd anything-llm` and run `yarn setup`. This will install all dependencies to run in production as well as debug the application.
+
+3. `cp server/.env.example server/.env` to create the basic ENV file for where instance settings will be read from on service start. This file is automatically managed and should not be editing manually.
+
+### To start the application
+
+AnythingLLM is comprised of three main sections. The `frontend`, `server`, and `collector`. When running in production you will be running `server` and `collector` on two different processes, with a build step for compilation of the frontend.
+
+1. Build the frontend application.
+`cd frontend && yarn build` - this will produce a `frontend/dist` folder that will be used later.
+
+2. Copy `frontend/dist` to `server/public` - `cp -R frontend/dist server/public`.
+This should product a folder in `server` named `public` which contains a top level `index.html` and various other files.
+
+_(optional)_ Build native LLM support if using `native` as your LLM.
+`cd server && npx --no node-llama-cpp download`
+
+3. Migrate and prepare your database file.
+```
+cd server && npx prisma generate --schema=./prisma/schema.prisma
+cd server && npx prisma migrate deploy --schema=./prisma/schema.prisma
+```
+
+4. Boot the server in production
+`cd server && NODE_ENV=production index.js &` 
+
+5. Boot the collection in another process
+`cd collector && NODE_ENV=production index.js &` 
+
+AnythingLLM should now be running on `http://localhost:3001`!
+
+### Updating AnythingLLM
+
+To update AnythingLLM with future updates you can `git pull origin master` to pull in the latest code and then repeat steps 2 - 5 to deploy with all changes fully.
+
+_note_ You should ensure that each folder runs `yarn` again to ensure packages are up to date in case any dependencies were added, changed, or removed.
+
+_note_ You should `pkill node` before running an update so that you are not running multiple AnythingLLM processes on the same instance as this can cause conflicts.
+
+
+### Example update script
+
+```shell
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd $HOME/anything-llm &&\
+git checkout . &&\
+git pull origin master &&\
+echo "HEAD pulled to commit $(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h" | tail -n 1)"
+
+echo "Freezing current ENVs"
+curl -I "http://localhost:3001/api/env-dump" | head -n 1|cut -d$' ' -f2
+
+echo "Rebuilding Frontend"
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/frontend && yarn && yarn build && cd $HOME/anything-llm
+
+echo "Copying to Sever Public"
+rm -rf server/public
+cp -r frontend/dist server/public
+
+echo "Killing node processes"
+pkill node
+
+echo "Installing collector dependencies"
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/collector && yarn
+
+echo "Installing server dependencies & running migrations"
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/server && yarn
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/server && npx prisma migrate deploy --schema=./prisma/schema.prisma
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/server && npx prisma generate
+
+echo "Booting up services."
+truncate -s 0 /logs/server.log # Or any other log file location.
+truncate -s 0 /logs/collector.log
+
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/server
+(NODE_ENV=production node index.js) &> /logs/server.log &
+
+cd $HOME/anything-llm/collector
+(NODE_ENV=production node index.js) &> /logs/collector.log &
+```
+
+
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 | [![Deploy on Docker][docker-btn]][docker-deploy] | [![Deploy on AWS][aws-btn]][aws-deploy] | [![Deploy on GCP][gcp-btn]][gcp-deploy] | [![Deploy on DigitalOcean][do-btn]][aws-deploy] | [![Deploy on Render.com][render-btn]][render-deploy] |
 
+[or set up a production AnythingLLM instance without Docker →](./BARE_METAL.md)
+
 ## How to setup for development
 
 - `yarn setup` To fill in the required `.env` files you'll need in each of the application sections (from root of repo).