Deploy and Host Nacos with MySQL on Railway

Nacos is an open-source project from Alibaba for dynamic service discovery, configuration, and service management. In this template, Nacos runs in standalone mode with MySQL as the persistent data store, making it well-suited for development and testing environments.

About Hosting Nacos with MySQL

This template deploys a Nacos server connected to a MySQL database, following the official standalone-mysql.yaml configuration. The MySQL instance stores Nacos metadata and configuration data, ensuring persistence across restarts. With port 8848 exposed, you can access the Nacos console UI to manage services, configurations, and namespaces. This single-node setup simplifies exploration and integration of Nacos features, while Railway manages the runtime, networking, and scaling. It is intended for non-production use, providing an easy way to experiment with Nacos + MySQL without complex setup.

Common Use Cases

Service discovery and registration in development
Centralized configuration management backed by MySQL
Experimenting with Nacos console UI and APIs

Dependencies for Nacos Hosting

Nacos Docker image (standalone mode)
MySQL database for persistent storage

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Nacos 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 Nacos 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.