Target Audience
What is Railway
Railway is a cloud platform for deploying applications, databases, and services from GitHub or Docker images. It provides managed infrastructure with automatic deployments, private networking, environments, custom domains, logs, metrics, and usage-based pricing.
Overview
Railway is a developer-focused cloud platform that lets teams deploy applications and infrastructure without managing individual servers. Projects can contain multiple services such as application containers, databases, cron jobs, and private services. Railway supports deployments from GitHub repositories, Docker images, and templates, with automatic builds and deployments triggered by code changes. It provides private networking between services, environment variables and secrets, persistent volumes, custom domains with automatic TLS, deployment logs, metrics, health checks, cron jobs, and service replicas. Railway uses usage-based billing for its infrastructure resources and provides a free trial followed by paid plans.
Who should and shouldn't use it
- You want a simple developer experience for deploying applications and databases.
- You want GitHub-based automatic deployments with minimal infrastructure configuration.
- You need multiple services such as an app, database, worker, and cron job in one project.
- You want private networking between deployed services.
- You prefer usage-based cloud pricing instead of managing individual VPS servers.
- You need complete control over the underlying physical servers or operating system.
- You want a self-hosted PaaS that runs entirely on infrastructure you own.
- You require highly specialized infrastructure that Railway does not provide.
- You want a traditional fixed-price VPS with predictable resource costs.
Key Features
- Application deployment
- GitHub deployments
- Docker image deployments
- Infrastructure templates
- Managed databases
- Private networking
- Environment variables and secrets
- Multiple environments
- Custom domains
- Automatic TLS certificates
- Persistent volumes
- Deployment logs
- Application metrics
- Health checks
- Service replicas
- Cron jobs
- Horizontal scaling
- CLI
- GraphQL API
- Project-level service management
- Usage-based billing
Integrations Supported
Frequently Asked Questions
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