---
title: "Deploy Mosquitto Broker"
description: "Lightweight MQTT message broker."
category: "Queues"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/mosquitto-broker
---

# Deploy Mosquitto Broker

Lightweight MQTT message broker.

**[Deploy Mosquitto Broker on Railway](https://railway.com/template/mosquitto-broker)**

- **Creator:** ⓁⓅ's Projects
- **Category:** Queues
- **Total deploys:** 77

## Template content

### Mosquitto Broker https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker-library/docs/757578e3a44e5460a8a11d32a81776f8b74231a9/eclipse-mosquitto/logo.png

- **Source:** Lima-e-Silva/mosquitto_railway_template
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Mosquitto Broker on Railway

Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source **lightweight** message broker that implements the MQTT. It's a **alternative to Kafka** for small projects.

## About Hosting Mosquitto Broker

This template provides a straightforward setup for Eclipse Mosquitto with minimal configuration.

## Common Use Cases

MQTT is the most commonly used messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT). MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. The protocol is a set of rules that defines how IoT devices can publish and subscribe to data over the Internet.

## Dependencies for Mosquitto Broker

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Official Eclipse Mosquitto Docker Image](https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-mosquitto)


## Why Deploy Mosquitto Broker 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 Mosquitto Broker 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.


## Similar templates

- [smoothmq](https://railway.com/deploy/AJv-64) — A drop-in replacement for AWS SQS
- [Kafka UI](https://railway.com/deploy/kafka-ui) — Kafbat UI — Open-source web UI to monitor and manage Apache Kafka clusters
- [Hatchet Lite](https://railway.com/deploy/hatchet-lite) — Hatchet Lite with postgres

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