Deploy and Host Consul on Railway

Consul is a networking and service discovery tool by HashiCorp. This template runs a single-node Consul server with the UI enabled, making it ideal for development and testing environments.

About Hosting Consul

On Railway, this template starts a standalone Consul agent with port 8500 exposed for the web UI. Data is persisted via a mounted volume at /consul/data so state is retained across restarts. This lightweight setup is intended for development and experimentation, not production clusters.

Common Use Cases

• Local service discovery testing
• Using Consul KV store for configuration experiments
• Exploring Consul’s UI and API features

Dependencies for Consul Hosting

• HashiCorp Consul Docker image
• Persistent volume for /consul/data

Deployment Dependencies

• Consul Documentation
• Consul Docker Hub

Why Deploy Consul 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 Consul 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.