Hello, it’s your friendly neighborhood changelog operator here and boy we are shipping so much stuff right now that we are running. out. of. ink. to print it all. 

We’re gonna need a WEEK to talk about all this stuff … (hint hint) … but seriously folks, that’s in the future, let’s talk about the present.

Do you want to hear about Volumes and Persistent Storage? What about Cron Jobs? And what if I told you that log search just got 100x (!!!) faster and we have the tapes to prove it? 

Please sit back, relax, and get yourself comfortable because it’s time for Changelog #0142.

Example Meilisearch implementation with an attached volume

 topping the Priority Boarding best sellers list, Volumes (AKA Persistent Storage) is ready to meet the national press.

Introducing, live and generally available for the very first time … (drum roll) … Volumes!

If you don’t know already, Volumes is a feature that enables you to mount persistent object storage to any Railway service. This is useful in so many ways, but especially for creating your own database-like services. 

We’ve kickstarted some templates for you with 

 for ya, so be sure to check those out, too. 

And if you need some more inspo, jump into the 

 and say hello. We’ll love to see you there.

An example cron job to backup a Pocketbase database

 users can now take advantage of Cron Jobs on Railway! 

, Cron Jobs lets you perform a task according to a fixed schedule. 

It’s a pretty simple implementation — simply look for the 

 item in the service settings. From there you can enter a 

As with any Priority Boarding feature, we’re looking for your feedback. What do you like and not like? Let us know in 

Railway Engineer Greg gives a special demo of enhanced log search performance on 1M+ rows!

Thanks to the fantastic Railway Engineer 

We’re talking lightning bolts, people. 

To give the all-new logs a try, grab yourself some deploy logs and enter a filter query. You should notice a seriously dramatic speed-up. 

We added better error reporting when containers fail to be created or start

We added version specification support to Docker image instance creation

We fixed some confusing copy on the new pricing page

We increased the effectiveness of our support ticket routing engine

https://res.cloudinary.com/railway/image/upload/v1689377616/volumes-crons_jg9suf.png

Volumes Generally Available, Cron Jobs Beta, Faster Log Search