---
title: "Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer"
description: "Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer for efficient DB pooling"
category: "Storage"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/postgres-pgbouncer
---

# Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer

Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer for efficient DB pooling

**[Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer on Railway](https://railway.com/template/postgres-pgbouncer)**

- **Creator:** Team Lasse
- **Category:** Storage
- **Total deploys:** 81

## Template content

### PGBouncer https://devicons.railway.com/i/postgresql.svg

- **Image:** railwayapp/pgbouncer

### Postgres https://devicons.railway.app/i/postgresql.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/railwayapp-templates/postgres-ssl:18

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Postgres + PgBouncer on Railway

Postgres is a powerful open-source relational database. PgBouncer is a lightweight 
connection pooler that sits in front of Postgres, managing database connections 
efficiently. Together, they provide a scalable, production-ready setup that reduces 
overhead, improves performance, and ensures your app can handle more traffic with 
fewer database bottlenecks.

## About Hosting Postgres + PgBouncer

Hosting Postgres with PgBouncer means you get a database plus a smart connection 
manager in one setup. Applications connect to PgBouncer, which manages and reuses 
connections to Postgres behind the scenes. This reduces resource usage, prevents 
connection floods, and keeps performance stable in production. On Railway, this is 
fully managed—simply deploy the template and focus on building your app instead of 
configuring database infrastructure.

## Common Use Cases

- Scaling web apps that frequently open and close DB connections
- Lowering resource overhead in production environments
- Ensuring stable app performance under heavy load

## Dependencies for Postgres + PgBouncer Hosting

- Docker containers (handled by Railway under the hood)
- PgBouncer + Postgres Docker images

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Postgres Docs](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/)
- [PgBouncer Docs](https://www.pgbouncer.org/)

## Why Deploy Postgres + PgBouncer 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 Postgres + PgBouncer 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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