---
title: "Deploy drobek"
description: "Cloud workspace for agent-built web apps"
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/drobek
---

# Deploy drobek

Cloud workspace for agent-built web apps

**[Deploy drobek on Railway](https://railway.com/template/drobek)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/drobek/manifest.json

- **Creator:** Tomáš Grasl
- **Category:** AI/ML

## Template content

### Postgres https://devicons.railway.app/i/postgresql.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/railwayapp-templates/postgres-ssl:18

### apps https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freema/drobek/main/docs/assets/drobek.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/freema/drobek:latest
- **Start command:** `node dist/server/apps-proxy.js`
- **Health check:** /healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

### drobek https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freema/drobek/main/docs/assets/drobek.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/freema/drobek:latest
- **Health check:** /healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Redis https://cdn.sanity.io/images/sy1jschh/production/0ce0bfdcfbdbf69662b1116671f97c2dd788b655-157x157.svg

- **Image:** redis:8.2
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -c "rm -rf $RAILWAY_VOLUME_MOUNT_PATH/lost+found/ && exec docker-entrypoint.sh redis-server --requirepass $REDIS_PASSWORD --save 60 1 --dir $RAILWAY_VOLUME_MOUNT_PATH"`

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host drobek with Railway

drobek is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) cloud workspace for agent-built web apps. Your AI agent connects over MCP, writes the files, and drobek compiles them, keeps every write as a version with its own preview URL, and publishes the app when you ask. A dashboard covers secrets, data and users.

## About Hosting drobek

drobek is one Node.js process plus Postgres and Redis. The template runs the official image `ghcr.io/freema/drobek` with Railway's managed Postgres and Redis on the private network, and a volume at `/data` for uploads, assets and installed modules. Railway's edge terminates TLS. This template is a personal instance that needs no domain of your own: the dashboard and MCP live on one Railway URL, your apps under a second one at `/apps//`, served through a small proxy service from the same image. Sign-in works with e-mailed codes, so you need a Resend API key or an SMTP server. The database migrates itself on the first start.

## Common Use Cases

- Let Claude, Codex or any MCP client build and host small web apps for you
- Prototype personal tools with a backend (login, stored data, forms, file uploads) without writing infrastructure
- Run a private, self-hosted alternative to hosted app builders, with your data in your own Postgres

## Dependencies for drobek Hosting

- Postgres (included in the template)
- Redis (included in the template)
- A Resend API key or an SMTP server for sign-in e-mails

### Deployment Dependencies

- Image: https://github.com/freema/drobek/pkgs/container/drobek
- Self-hosting reference: https://github.com/freema/drobek/blob/main/docs/SELF-HOSTING.md
- Railway guide: https://github.com/freema/drobek/blob/main/docs/RAILWAY.md

### Implementation Details

The drobek service uses one volume at `/data` (`FILES_DIR`, `ASSETS_DIR`, `DROBEK_MODULES_DIR`), the healthcheck `/healthz`, and a generated `DROBEK_MASTER_KEY` that encrypts app secrets. The apps service runs `node dist/server/apps-proxy.js` from the same image and forwards the apps origin to drobek over the private network. `DATABASE_URL` and `REDIS_URL` are reference variables to the Postgres and Redis services. All apps share one browser origin, so the instance is for one owner; teams and own domains use the subdomain setup from the self-hosting guide.

### Why Deploy drobek 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 drobek 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.

## Similar templates

- [Chat Chat](https://railway.com/deploy/-WWW5r) — Chat Chat, your own unified chat and search to AI platform.
- [Weaviate](https://railway.com/deploy/weaviate-1) — Vector database with hybrid search and an API key-protected API
- [Möbius v0.1 Personal AI OS](https://railway.com/deploy/mobius-v01-personal-ai-os) — Self-hosted AI agent that builds and runs apps for you, with memory.

Open this page in a browser: https://railway.com/deploy/drobek