Deploy and Host Coolify self-hosted in Railway on Railway

What is Coolify self-hosted in Railway? Coolify is an open-source, self-hosted PaaS — a drop-in alternative to Vercel, Netlify, and Heroku. This zero-configuration template deploys a fully managed Coolify instance (web UI + PostgreSQL + Redis) on Railway in one click, with automatic SSL, persistent storage, and auto-generated secrets.

About Hosting Coolify self-hosted in Railway

Hosting means running the entire Coolify control plane on Railway's infrastructure. The template provisions three services wired over Railway's private network: a PostgreSQL database, a Redis cache/queue, and the Coolify app itself, built from a Dockerfile with Horizon disabled for a lighter footprint. All secrets — database password, Redis password, Laravel encryption key — are generated automatically, so there's nothing to configure. The first boot runs ~600 database migrations and can take 8–15 minutes; later deploys are fast. Because Railway doesn't reliably support privileged containers, Docker-in-Docker is excluded; instead you connect your own Linux VPS servers as compute nodes for production workloads.

Common Use Cases

Self-host your own deployment platform with full control over your code and data
Deploy production apps by attaching your own VPS servers (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS) as compute nodes
Replace paid PaaS billing with a free, open-source alternative hosted on Railway

Dependencies for Coolify self-hosted in Railway Hosting

PostgreSQL 15 (persistent volume)
Redis 7 (persistent volume)

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Local development with Docker Compose:

cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d
# Coolify at http://localhost:8000

Why Deploy Coolify self-hosted in Railway 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 Coolify self-hosted in Railway 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.