Deploy and Host Lightdash BI on Railway

Run Lightdash 1.107.0 with private PostgreSQL and Railway object storage.

About Hosting Lightdash BI

Lightdash is an open-source business intelligence application built around dbt semantic models. This Railway template runs the application, its metadata database, and S3-compatible result storage as one private graph.

Why Deploy Lightdash BI on Railway

Railway generates the secrets, connects services over private networking, persists metadata on a volume, and exposes only the Lightdash web application, so the first useful workspace is available without assembling the infrastructure manually.

Common Use Cases

Give analysts a browser-based interface over dbt models.
Build governed charts and dashboards from an existing warehouse.
Evaluate self-hosted Lightdash with persistent metadata and result storage.

Dependencies for Lightdash BI Hosting

The deployment uses Lightdash, PostgreSQL, pgvector, and a Railway Bucket.

Deployment Dependencies

Lightdash 1.107.0 application image
PostgreSQL 17 with pgvector and a persistent 5 GB volume
Railway Bucket for cached query results and assets