Deploy and Host Dashy - Homelab Dashboard on Railway

Dashy is an open-source, highly customizable dashboard application that helps you organize your self-hosted services, applications, bookmarks, and widgets from a single location. Designed for homelab enthusiasts, developers, and self-hosters, Dashy provides a beautiful and feature-rich homepage with support for status monitoring, themes, integrations, authentication, and custom layouts.

About Hosting Dashy - Homelab Dashboard

Deploying Dashy on Railway allows you to quickly create a centralized dashboard for managing your self-hosted infrastructure and services. Dashy runs as a lightweight containerized web application and does not require a database, Redis instance, or background workers. With a persistent volume attached, your configuration files, assets, icons, and customizations remain available across deployments and restarts. Railway handles networking, HTTPS, deployments, and scaling automatically, making it easy to maintain a reliable and accessible dashboard for your homelab environment.

Security Notice

Dashy is publicly accessible by default. If you plan to expose your dashboard to the internet, consider enabling authentication through Dashy's built-in auth options or a reverse proxy solution such as Authentik, Authelia, Keycloak, or Cloudflare Access.

How to Use

After the deployment completes successfully, open your Dashy Public URL from the Railway dashboard.

Click the Settings / Options button in the top-right corner.
Select Config.
Click Edit Config.
Replace the default configuration with the example below.
Save the configuration and refresh the page.

This example creates a categorized dashboard containing Railway deployment templates for AI, Automation, Linux, Databases, Business Applications, and Analytics.

pageInfo:
  title: Templates
  description: Self-Hosted Infrastructure, Cloud Services & Railway Templates
  logo: https://railway.com/brand/logo-light.svg

  navLinks:
    - title: GitHub
      path: https://github.com

    - title: Railway
      path: https://railway.com

    - title: Railway Templates
      path: https://railway.com/templates

appConfig:
  theme: colorful
  iconSize: medium
  layout: auto
  statusCheck: true
  language: en

sections:
  - name: 🚀 Featured Templates
    icon: fas fa-star
    items:
      - title: Hermes Agent
        icon: fas fa-brain
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/hermes-agent-or-openclaw-alternative-wit

      - title: Flowise + n8n AI Automation
        icon: fas fa-network-wired
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/flowise-and-n8n-ai-automation

      - title: Evolution API + n8n
        icon: fas fa-comments
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/evolution-api-with-n8n

      - title: n8n Pro Stack
        icon: fas fa-bolt
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/n8n-pro-stack

  - name: 🤖 AI & Automation
    icon: fas fa-robot
    items:
      - title: Hermes Agent
        icon: fas fa-brain
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/hermes-agent-or-openclaw-alternative-wit

      - title: Hermes Agent v2
        icon: fas fa-robot
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/hermes-agent-2

      - title: Flowise + n8n AI Automation
        icon: fas fa-network-wired
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/flowise-and-n8n-ai-automation

      - title: Evolution API + n8n
        icon: fas fa-comments
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/evolution-api-with-n8n

      - title: n8n Community Edition
        icon: fas fa-project-diagram
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/n8n-1

      - title: n8n Pro Stack
        icon: fas fa-bolt
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/n8n-pro-stack

  - name: 🐧 Linux & Development
    icon: fab fa-linux
    items:
      - title: Rocky Linux
        icon: fab fa-linux
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/rocky-linux

      - title: Playwright + Node.js
        icon: fas fa-code
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/playwright-with-nodejs

  - name: 🗄️ Databases & Backend
    icon: fas fa-database
    items:
      - title: PocketBase
        icon: fas fa-database
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/pocketbase-1

  - name: 🏢 Business Applications
    icon: fas fa-building
    items:
      - title: Odoo ERP
        icon: fas fa-building
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/odoo-1

      - title: WordPress
        icon: fab fa-wordpress
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/wordpress-2

  - name: 📊 Analytics & Monitoring
    icon: fas fa-chart-line
    items:
      - title: Metabase + PostgreSQL
        icon: fas fa-chart-bar
        url: https://railway.com/deploy/metabase-w-postgres

You can further customize the dashboard by editing icons, themes, layouts, sections, links, widgets, authentication settings, and status monitoring options directly from the Dashy configuration editor.

Common Use Cases

Create a centralized homepage for self-hosted applications and services.
Organize bookmarks, documentation, and frequently used internal tools.
Monitor service health, status pages, and infrastructure resources from a single dashboard.

Dependencies for Dashy - Homelab Dashboard Hosting

Dashy Docker Image (lissy93/dashy)
Persistent Volume (recommended for storing configuration and custom assets)

Deployment Dependencies

Dashy Documentation: https://dashy.to/docs
Dashy GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy
Dashy Docker Hub Image: https://hub.docker.com/r/lissy93/dashy

Implementation Details

Docker Image

lissy93/dashy:latest

Exposed Port

Persistent Volume Mount

/data

Recommended Environment Variables

NODE_ENV=production

Why Deploy Dashy - Homelab Dashboard 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 Dashy - Homelab Dashboard 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.