---
title: "Deploy Outerbase Studio"
description: "Browser-based GUI for Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite databases"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/outerbase-studio
---

# Deploy Outerbase Studio

Browser-based GUI for Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite databases

**[Deploy Outerbase Studio on Railway](https://railway.com/template/outerbase-studio)**

- **Creator:** André Lademann's Projects
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### Outerbase Studio

- **Source:** https://github.com/vergissberlin/railwayapp-outerbase-studio
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Outerbase Studio for railway.app

![Template Header](./template-header.svg)

Deploy Outerbase Studio on Railway with one click.

[![Deploy on Railway](https://railway.com/button.svg)](https://railway.com/deploy/outerbase-studio?referralCode=2_sIT9&utm_medium=integration&utm_source=template&utm_campaign=generic)

# Deploy and Host Outerbase Studio on Railway

Outerbase Studio is a lightweight, open-source database GUI that runs in your browser and connects
to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. This template packages the community-maintained
`chewcw/outerbase-studio` Docker image so you can deploy a working instance on Railway in a single
click, without installing a desktop database client or managing a server yourself.

## About Hosting Outerbase Studio

Outerbase Studio serves its UI from a single container and connects to your databases directly
from the browser session. Hosting it on Railway means Railway builds the Docker image, terminates
TLS on a public domain, and keeps the container restarted and healthy — you only manage the
database connections you add inside the app.

## Why Deploy Outerbase Studio on Railway

* **Zero infrastructure management** — no VM or Docker host to patch or size
* **Instant HTTPS** — Railway issues a public domain with TLS out of the box
* **Basic-auth gate included** — `STUDIO_USER`/`STUDIO_PASSWORD` keep the public domain from being wide open
* **Automatic rebuilds** — Renovate keeps the pinned upstream image current, Railway redeploys on push
* **Team access** — invite teammates to the same Railway project instead of sharing local installs

## Common Use Cases

* A lightweight, browser-based SQL client for a database already running on Railway
* Giving a small team shared query access without installing a desktop SQL client each
* Ad-hoc data exploration and debugging against Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite
* A disposable database GUI you can spin up per project instead of a shared, long-lived instance

## Dependencies for Outerbase Studio

* The community `chewcw/outerbase-studio` Docker image (pinned tag, see `Dockerfile`)
* `STUDIO_USER` and `STUDIO_PASSWORD` environment variables for basic auth
* Network access to whichever databases you connect to from within the app

## ✨ Features

* Outerbase Studio on Railway with a Dockerfile build
* Pinned upstream image so Renovate can raise update PRs
* Healthcheck and restart policy preconfigured
* Persistent volume mount path declared

## 🚀 Quick Start

1. Click "Deploy on Railway"
2. Set the environment variables listed below
3. Attach a volume at `/app/data` before sending production traffic
4. Wait for the build and open the generated URL

## ⚙️ Configuration

### Environment variables

```bash
STUDIO_USER=admin
STUDIO_PASSWORD=changeme
```

Set real credentials as Railway variables, never in a file inside this repository. Confirmed on a
live deployment: the container refuses to start (or crash-loops) without these two set.

## 💾 Persistence

`railway.toml` declares `requiredMountPath = "/app/data"`. Attach a Railway volume to that
path before production traffic, otherwise all data is lost on every redeploy.

## ⚠️ Known limitations

This template uses the community-maintained [`chewcw/outerbase-studio`](https://hub.docker.com/r/chewcw/outerbase-studio)
image (pinned at `v0.9.2`), because the upstream [outerbase/studio](https://github.com/outerbase/studio)
project has no official Docker image yet ([tracking discussion](https://github.com/outerbase/studio/discussions/443)).

* The image ignores `$PORT` and always binds to `8080` internally, regardless of what Railway
  sets — confirmed on a live deployment. This is harmless: Railway's proxy auto-detects the
  listening port, so the generated domain still routes correctly with no `startCommand` needed.
* `/app/data` is a precautionary mount path; it is not confirmed that the image persists anything
  there, since Outerbase Studio normally keeps connections in the browser rather than server-side.

## 🐳 Local Development

```bash
git clone https://github.com/vergissberlin/railwayapp-outerbase-studio.git
cd railwayapp-outerbase-studio
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d
```

Then open http://localhost:3000 (mapped to the container's internal port 8080).

## 🪲 Bug Reporting

Found a bug? [Create an issue](https://github.com/vergissberlin/railwayapp-outerbase-studio/issues/new) or open a pull request with a fix.

## 🤝 Contributing

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

## 📝 License

MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).

## 🔒 Security

* All credentials are supplied as environment variables, never committed
* Railway terminates TLS for the generated domain
* Renovate keeps the pinned upstream image up to date

## Railway runtime defaults

`railway.toml` ships these defaults:

* Healthcheck path: `/`
* Restart policy: `ON_FAILURE` with up to 10 retries
* Dockerfile-based build

Outerbase Studio ignores `$PORT` and always listens on `8080`; Railway's proxy auto-detects this,
so no start command is configured.

## 📚 Resources

* [Outerbase Studio documentation](https://github.com/outerbase/studio)
* [Railway documentation](https://docs.railway.app/)
* [Template updates](https://docs.railway.com/reference/templates#updatable-templates)


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