How do I deploy ByteChef [n8n alternative] on Railway?

You can deploy ByteChef [n8n alternative] on Railway by clicking the "Deploy Now" button on this page. Railway will automatically set up all the necessary services and configurations for you.

What are the system requirements?

Railway handles all the infrastructure requirements. You only need a web browser to deploy and manage your application.

Is this template free to use?

Yes, this template is free to use within your existing Railway account.

Can I customize this template?

Yes, you can fully customize this template. After deployment, you will have full control of what you've deployed in your Railway project.

How do I get support for this template?

You can get support through our community forum: bytechef-f4db47e8, or join our Discord community for more assistance.

Deploy and Host ByteChef on Railway

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What is ByteChef?

ByteChef is an open-source, low-code, extendable API integration and workflow automation platform. ByteChef can help you as:

An automation solution that allows you to integrate and build automation workflows across your SaaS apps, internal APIs, and databases.
An embedded solution targeted explicitly for SaaS products, allowing your customers to integrate applications they use with your product.

Key Features

Intuitive UI Workflow Editor: build and visualize workflows via the UI editor by dragging and dropping components and defining their relations.
Event-Driven & Scheduled Workflows: automate scheduled and real-time event-driven workflows via a simple trigger definition.
Multiple Flow Controls: use the range of various flow controls such as condition, switch, loop, each, parallel, etc.
Built-In Code Editor: if you need to go beyond no-code workflow definition, leverage our low-code capabilities and write workflow definitions in JSON format and blocks of the code executed during the workflow execution in one of the languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby with syntax highlighting, auto-completion and real-time syntax validation.
Rich Component Ecosystem: hundreds of components built in to extract data from any database, SaaS applications, internal APIs, or cloud storage.
Extendable: develop custom connectors when no built-in connectors exist in the above-mentioned languages.
AI Ready: built-in AI components that can run multiple AI models and other AI algorithms.
Developer Ready: expose your workflows as APIs to be consumed by other applications or call directly APIs of targeted services. The platform handles authentication.
Version Control Friendly: write your workflows from the UI editor and push them to your preferred Git branch directly from ByteChef, enabling best practices with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
Self-hosted: install ByteChef on the premise to have complete control over execution and data, in addition to being able to use a hosted version.
Scalable: it is designed to handle millions of workflows with high availability and fault tolerance. Start with one instance only, and scale as required.
Structure & Resilience: bring resilience to your workflows with labels, sub-flows, retries, timeout, error handling, inputs, outputs that generate artifacts in the UI, variables, conditional branching, advanced scheduling, event triggers, dynamic tasks, sequential and parallel tasks, and skip tasks or triggers when needed by disabling them.

About Hosting ByteChef

ByteChef can be self-hosted on various platforms to give you full control over your workflow automation infrastructure. Railway provides a streamlined deployment experience with automatic scaling, managed infrastructure, and simplified configuration. This deployment method is ideal for teams who want to focus on building workflows rather than managing servers, while maintaining the flexibility and power of a self-hosted solution.

Common Use Cases

Customer Onboarding Automation: Automatically sync new customer data from CRM systems (like Salesforce or HubSpot) to email marketing platforms, billing systems, and support tools. Set up welcome email sequences and create support tickets for onboarding teams.
E-commerce Order Processing: Integrate online stores with inventory management, shipping providers, and accounting software. Automatically update stock levels, generate shipping labels, send order confirmations, and sync financial data to accounting platforms like QuickBooks or Xero.
Multi-Platform Social Media Management: Schedule and publish content across multiple social media platforms, aggregate engagement metrics, and trigger notifications when specific engagement thresholds are met. Automatically respond to common customer inquiries using AI components.
Data Synchronization & ETL Workflows: Extract data from multiple sources (databases, APIs, cloud storage), transform it according to business rules, and load it into data warehouses or analytics platforms. Schedule regular data refreshes and handle incremental updates.
IT Operations & DevOps Automation: Automate incident response workflows by integrating monitoring tools with ticketing systems and communication platforms. Trigger deployments, run health checks, and manage infrastructure provisioning across cloud providers.

Dependencies for ByteChef Hosting

Railway account - for deployment and hosting

Deployment Dependencies

Documentation is available at docs.bytechef.io. It covers all the necessary information to get started with ByteChef, including installation, configuration, and usage.

Roadmap

Check out our roadmap to get informed of the latest features released and the upcoming ones.

Why Deploy ByteChef on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying ByteChef on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.