---
title: "Deploy Valkey"
description: "An open source, Redis compatible, in-memory data store"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/valkey
---

# Deploy Valkey

An open source, Redis compatible, in-memory data store

**[Deploy Valkey on Railway](https://railway.com/template/valkey)**

- **Creator:** Brody's Projects
- **Category:** Other
- **Total deploys:** 78

## Template content

### Valkey https://res.cloudinary.com/h5kvzw/image/upload/v1713278076/Valkey-logo_yrnlsx.svg

- **Image:** valkey/valkey:latest
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -c "exec docker-entrypoint.sh valkey-server --port ${VALKEY_PORT} --requirepass ${VALKEY_PASSWORD}"`

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Valkey on Railway

Valkey is a high-performance data structure server that primarily serves key/value workloads. It supports a wide range of native structures and an extensible plugin system for adding new data structures and access patterns.

## About Hosting Valkey

Hosting Valkey involves deploying a high-performance in-memory data structure server that acts as a database, cache, and message broker. Valkey requires minimal configuration for basic deployments and runs on port 6379 by default. It can be configured for data persistence, clustering, and high availability depending on your application needs.

## Common Use Cases

- **Application Caching**: Store frequently accessed data in memory to reduce database load and improve response times for web applications and APIs
- **Session Management**: Handle user session data for web applications, providing fast access to authentication states and user preferences across distributed systems
- **Real-time Analytics**: Process and store real-time metrics, counters, and analytics data for dashboards, monitoring systems, and business intelligence applications

## Dependencies for Valkey Hosting

- **Client Libraries**: Language-specific Valkey/Redis client libraries for your application stack
- **Memory Management**: Sufficient RAM allocation for your dataset size and operational overhead

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Valkey Official Documentation](https://valkey.io/docs/)
- [Valkey GitHub Repository](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey)
- [Redis Compatibility Guide](https://valkey.io/docs/topics/redis-compatibility/) (since Valkey maintains Redis API compatibility)

### Implementation Details

Basic connection example using a Node.js client:

```javascript
import { createClient } from 'redis';

const client = createClient({
  url: `redis://:${process.env.VALKEY_PASSWORD}@${process.env.VALKEY_HOST}:${process.env.VALKEY_PORT}`
});

await client.connect();

// Set a key-value pair
await client.set('user:1001', JSON.stringify({ name: 'John Doe', email: 'john@example.com' }));

// Get a value
const user = JSON.parse(await client.get('user:1001'));
console.log(user);
```

Basic configuration for persistence:

```bash
# Enable RDB snapshots
save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 10000

# Enable AOF for better durability
appendonly yes
appendfsync everysec
```

## Why Deploy Valkey 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 Valkey 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.

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