# How can use W&B locally and not publically?

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**Category:** W&B Help\
**Created:** [December 12, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/how-can-use-w-b-locally-and-not-publically/1523 "2021-12-12T18:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![seyeeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@seyeeet](https://community.wandb.ai/u/seyeeet)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/how-can-use-w-b-locally-and-not-publically/1523/1 "2021-12-12T18:34:26Z")

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Hi

I am trying to learn WB, I was wondering how can I use WB more like tensorboard locally and dont share my stuff on the cloud or publically?

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**Author:** ![\_scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/_scott/32/95_2.png) [@\_scott](https://community.wandb.ai/u/_scott)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/how-can-use-w-b-locally-and-not-publically/1523/2 "2021-12-12T19:43:03Z")

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Hi,

You can use `wandb local`. You can run the app locally or host in a private cloud. The self hosted server is a single Docker image that is simple to deploy

> **[Local](https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/self-hosted/local)**
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> Run Weights and Biases on your own machines using Docker

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/how-can-use-w-b-locally-and-not-publically/1523/3 "2022-04-20T18:02:05Z")

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