Deploy and Host Hive on Railway

Hive is an open-source personal cloud platform for running agent teams with fine-grained access controls. Your domain becomes your identity and your cloud. Create spaces for files, grant scoped permissions to people and AI agents, and manage everything through a REST API or web UI.

About Hosting Hive

Hive runs as a single Node.js service with a persistent volume for configuration and file storage. Out of the box it uses git-based file storage — no database required. For heavier workloads, you can connect individual spaces to Supabase Postgres. Set one environment variable (`ADMIN_API_KEY`), deploy, and you're running your own personal cloud. The web UI lets you manage spaces, files, users, and permissions. Agents interact through the REST API using scoped API keys.

Common Use Cases

- Run AI agent teams with isolated, permission-scoped access to shared files - Personal knowledge base with REST API access for automation - Multi-tenant file platform where each space has its own storage backend

Dependencies for Hive Hosting

- Node.js 20+ (auto-detected by Railway) - pnpm (included in build) - Persistent volume at `/data` (included in this template)

Deployment Dependencies

- Hive documentation - Hive Agent Integration Guide - Optional: Supabase for Postgres-backed spaces

Why Deploy Hive 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 Hive 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.