Deploy and Host Plane (Self-Hosted Jira/Linear Alternative) on Railway

Plane is an open-source project and issue tracker — a self-hosted Jira or Linear alternative that you fully own. Plan work with issues, cycles (sprints) and modules, track progress on boards, spreadsheet and Gantt views, write specs in Pages, and manage initiatives across projects. This template deploys the complete Plane Community stack — the API server, background worker, beat scheduler, the web, admin and public "spaces" front-ends, a real-time collaboration server, PostgreSQL, Redis (Valkey), RabbitMQ and an S3-compatible MinIO object store, all behind a single Caddy reverse proxy — each pinned to a verified upstream image and wired over Railway's private network so it comes up working on the first deploy.

About Hosting Plane (Self-Hosted Jira/Linear Alternative)

Plane is a multi-service application: a Django REST API, Celery worker and beat processes, three Next.js front-ends (the main app, the admin "god-mode" panel and public shared views), and a Hocuspocus live server, backed by PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, RabbitMQ and MinIO. Only one service — the proxy — is exposed publicly; it routes /, /spaces, /god-mode, /api, /live and file storage to the right internal service over Railway's private network. This template configures every connection string, generates fresh app secrets on each deploy, runs database migrations automatically on first boot (with retry-on-boot resilience), and attaches persistent volumes to Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ and MinIO. When the app loads you open /god-mode to create the instance admin, then sign up as the first workspace owner.

Common Use Cases

A self-hosted issue tracker and project planner for engineering teams that want their roadmap and issue data on their own infrastructure instead of a SaaS vendor
A Jira or Linear replacement using Plane's issues, cycles, modules, and board/spreadsheet/Gantt views to run sprints
A documentation and spec workspace with Plane Pages and real-time collaborative editing, plus public shared views for stakeholders

Dependencies for Plane (Self-Hosted Jira/Linear Alternative) Hosting

PostgreSQL 15 for all application data (included)
Redis / Valkey 7 for caching and real-time state (included)
RabbitMQ 3.13 as the Celery message broker (included)
MinIO (S3-compatible) object storage for uploads and attachments (included)
A Caddy reverse proxy that fronts the whole stack on one domain (included)

No external services are required to deploy. To send invitation and notification emails you can optionally add SMTP settings from the admin panel after the first-run setup.

Why Deploy Plane (Self-Hosted Jira/Linear Alternative) on Railway?

Railway's private networking, per-service volumes and one-click deploys make running Plane's twelve-service architecture practical without writing Docker Compose or hand-wiring a reverse proxy. This template pins every image, generates fresh secrets per deploy, and connects the proxy, front-ends, API, workers, database, Redis, RabbitMQ and MinIO automatically over the private network — with the proxy rewritten to target Railway's internal domains — so a working, persistent Plane instance is a few clicks away, and each service scales independently as your team and data grow.