Deploy and Host Outline on Railway

What is outline?

Outline is a powerful, open-source team knowledge base and wiki platform designed to organize your company’s information. It features real-time collaboration, a fast Markdown editor, robust search, document sharing (public and private), deep integrations (e.g., Slack, Figma), customizable branding, access controls, and RTL/language support—all optimized for seamless team collaboration, productivity, and security.

About Hosting outline

Hosting Outline involves deploying the open-source Outline app on your own server infrastructure, typically alongside dependencies like a database and file storage solution. You'll need to set up user authentication, manage environment variables, and ensure reliable storage of documents and media. Deployment on platforms like Railway streamlines configuration, scalability, and DevOps, making it easy to get Outline running without heavy infrastructure management. You'll benefit from combining Outline’s open-source flexibility with Railway’s managed deployments and simple scaling, suitable for teams and organizations aiming for self-hosted knowledge management.

Common Use Cases

Internal team wiki and documentation hub
Company knowledge base for onboarding employees
Collaborative workspace for project notes and meeting minutes

Dependencies for outline Hosting

Postgres database for data persistence
Redis for caching and real-time collaboration

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy outline 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 outline 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.