Deploy and Host Infisical on Railway

Infisical is the open-source secrets manager (a Doppler and HashiCorp Vault alternative): store API keys, database URLs and certificates per project and environment, sync them to your apps with the CLI, SDKs, Kubernetes operator or Terraform provider, and keep an audit log of who read what. This template runs Infisical v0.146.2 with Postgres and Redis, and it seeds the instance administrator before the public port ever opens.

About Hosting Infisical

Infisical is a Node.js API and web app that needs Postgres for its data and Redis for queues and caching. It ships no admin account: a stock deploy is initialised through an unauthenticated POST /api/v1/admin/bootstrap, which hands the first caller a superAdmin account plus an organisation-admin machine token. On a public URL that is a race the deployer usually loses, and losing it is permanent — the endpoint answers Instance has already been set up afterwards and password recovery is an emailed link a fresh deploy has no SMTP for.

This template starts Infisical on loopback, bootstraps the administrator from the deploy's own generated password, stops it, and only then binds the public port — so the first request the internet ever sees is against an already-claimed instance. It also pins the upstream image by digest, sizes the Node heap from the container's cgroup limit instead of the image's baked 1 GB cap, publishes a healthcheck on /api/status, turns telemetry off, and puts Postgres and Redis each on their own volume.

Why Deploy Infisical on Railway?

Railway gives Infisical a private network for Postgres and Redis, a TLS domain, and per-service volumes, with no VM to patch. Everything durable lives in Postgres, so redeploys are cheap and the app service itself is stateless.

Common Use Cases

Central secrets store for a team, replacing .env files passed around in chat.
Per-environment secret injection into CI and into other Railway services via the Infisical CLI.
Machine identities for services that need to fetch their own credentials at boot.

Dependencies for Infisical

PostgreSQL 17 (included)
Redis 8 (included)

Deployment Dependencies

Infisical documentation: https://infisical.com/docs
Upstream project: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

After deploying, sign in with the INFISICAL_ADMIN_EMAIL and INFISICAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD variables on the Infisical service.