Deploy and Host Infisical (Self-Hosted Vault & Doppler Alternative) on Railway

Infisical is an open-source secrets-management platform — a self-hosted alternative to HashiCorp Vault, Doppler and AWS Secrets Manager that you fully own. Store, version and inject secrets and configuration across your apps, environments and CI/CD pipelines from one place, with a web dashboard, a CLI, native SDKs, dynamic secrets, secret rotation, point-in-time recovery and full audit logs. This template deploys the complete Infisical self-hosted stack — the Infisical application, a PostgreSQL database and a Redis instance — each pinned to a verified upstream image and wired over Railway's private network, with fresh encryption and auth secrets generated on deploy so it comes up working on the first try.

About Hosting Infisical (Self-Hosted Vault & Doppler Alternative)

Infisical ships as a single application container that serves both the API and the web dashboard on port 8080, backed by PostgreSQL for persistent storage and Redis for caching, sessions and background jobs. Only the Infisical app is exposed publicly; PostgreSQL and Redis stay on Railway's private network. Database schema migrations run automatically on boot, so there is no manual migration step. This template generates a fresh 32-character ENCRYPTION_KEY and a strong AUTH_SECRET on each deploy, builds the DB_CONNECTION_URI and REDIS_URL from the private service domains, points SITE_URL at the app's public domain, and attaches persistent volumes to Postgres and Redis. When it finishes deploying you open the app and create the first super-admin account, then start adding projects, environments and secrets. Note: the ENCRYPTION_KEY protects all stored secrets and cannot be recovered if lost — back it up somewhere safe once deployed.

Common Use Cases

A self-hosted secrets manager for application and environment variables — database URLs, API keys, tokens — kept out of .env files and version control and injected at runtime via the CLI or SDKs
A HashiCorp Vault, Doppler or AWS Secrets Manager replacement for teams that need secrets, access controls and audit logs to stay on their own infrastructure
A central configuration store for CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes, with per-environment secrets, secret rotation and point-in-time recovery

Dependencies for Infisical (Self-Hosted Vault & Doppler Alternative) Hosting

PostgreSQL 14+ for all application data — projects, secrets, users and audit logs (included)
Redis 6.2+ for caching, sessions and background jobs (included; single-node, cluster mode is not supported)

No external services are required to deploy. To send email invitations, verification and password-reset messages you can optionally add SMTP settings from the admin panel after the first-run setup. For single sign-on and dynamic-secret integrations you can connect your own identity and cloud providers later from the dashboard.

Why Deploy Infisical (Self-Hosted Vault & Doppler Alternative) on Railway?

Railway's private networking, per-service volumes and one-click deploys make running Infisical's three-service stack practical without writing Docker Compose or hand-managing connection strings and encryption keys. This template pins the app, Postgres and Redis to verified images, generates a fresh encryption key and auth secret per deploy, and wires the app to the database and cache automatically over the private network — with the public URL injected and migrations running on boot — so a working, persistent Infisical instance is a few clicks away, and the database and cache scale independently as your secret count and team grow.