---
title: "Deploy Glance"
description: "Glance 0.8 self-hosted dashboard for feeds, releases and service status."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/glance-1
---

# Deploy Glance

Glance 0.8 self-hosted dashboard for feeds, releases and service status.

**[Deploy Glance on Railway](https://railway.com/template/glance-1)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/glance-1/manifest.json

- **Creator:** Agaz Self-Host
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### glance https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glanceapp/glance/v0.8.6/internal/glance/static/app-icon.png

- **Image:** glanceapp/glance:v0.8.6
- **Start command:** `sh -c 'printf "%s\n" "$GLANCE_CONFIG" > /tmp/glance.yml && exec /app/glance --config /tmp/glance.yml'`
- **Health check:** /api/healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Glance on Railway

Glance is a fast, lightweight self-hosted dashboard that puts your feeds in one place. Widgets show RSS feeds, Hacker News, Lobsters, Reddit, GitHub releases, YouTube uploads, weather, markets, calendars, Docker containers and service status, all configured in a single YAML file and rendered as a quick, minimal page.

## About Hosting Glance

This template deploys Glance v0.8.6 from the official image with a developer-focused starter dashboard: GitHub releases, Hacker News and Lobsters, engineering blogs and a status monitor. The whole configuration lives in the `GLANCE_CONFIG` variable, so you edit pages and widgets in the Railway dashboard and redeploy. Glance's built-in login protects the dashboard with a generated password, and sessions stay valid across redeploys. Glance is stateless and very light, so it needs no volume and fits the Hobby plan. Change the starter widgets to follow the repositories, feeds and services your team cares about.

## Common Use Cases

- A personal or team start page for releases, news and blogs
- Watching the status of your own sites and APIs
- Following GitHub releases of the libraries you depend on

## Dependencies for Glance Hosting

- `glanceapp/glance:v0.8.6` (official image)

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Glance configuration](https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/blob/v0.8.6/docs/configuration.md)
- [Glance v0.8.6 release](https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/releases/tag/v0.8.6)
- [Glance on GitHub](https://github.com/glanceapp/glance)

### Implementation Details

| Service | Image | Networking | Storage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| glance | `glanceapp/glance:v0.8.6` | public domain on 8080 | none |

Add a widget to `GLANCE_CONFIG`:

```yaml
      - size: small
        widgets:
          - type: releases
            repositories:
              - your-org/your-repo
```

| Variable | Default | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `GLANCE_CONFIG` | starter dashboard | Complete `glance.yml` |
| `GLANCE_ADMIN_USERNAME` / `GLANCE_ADMIN_PASSWORD` | `admin` / generated | Dashboard login |
| `GLANCE_SECRET_KEY` | generated | Signs sessions; must decode to 64 bytes |

Notes:

- Keep the `auth` and `server` blocks when replacing the config, and use single quotes in YAML.
- Set `GITHUB_TOKEN` and reference it in the releases widget to avoid GitHub rate limits.

This is a community-maintained deployment package and does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by the Glance project or its maintainers.

## Why Deploy Glance 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 Glance 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.


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