---
title: "Deploy Infisical | (Just Updated) Secrets Manager Nobody Else Can Claim"
description: "Secrets manager a stranger cannot claim. Admin seeded before port opens."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/infisical-or-just-updated-secrets-manage
---

# Deploy Infisical | (Just Updated) Secrets Manager Nobody Else Can Claim

Secrets manager a stranger cannot claim. Admin seeded before port opens.

**[Deploy Infisical | (Just Updated) Secrets Manager Nobody Else Can Claim on Railway](https://railway.com/template/infisical-or-just-updated-secrets-manage)**

- **Creator:** SuperSlowSloth
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### postgres

- **Image:** postgres:17.10-alpine

### redis

- **Image:** redis:8.2.1-alpine
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -c 'chown -R redis:redis /data && exec docker-entrypoint.sh redis-server --requirepass "$REDIS_PASSWORD" --appendonly yes --dir /data'`

### infisical

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/infisical-railway:v0.146.2
- **Health check:** /api/status
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# 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.


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