Deploy and Host RustFS on Railway

RustFS is a high-performance, S3-compatible object store written in Rust and licensed Apache-2.0. Point any S3 SDK, aws s3, rclone or mc at it to keep files, backups and media on your own storage.

This template runs RustFS 1.0.1 as a single service from a digest-pinned official image, with an access key and secret key generated for you and a persistent volume for the data.

About Hosting RustFS

RustFS needs a few things handled for Railway, all done in the start command:

Writable volume. Railway mounts volumes root-owned while the image runs as an unprivileged user, so the volume would be read-only. The service runs as root and logs the owner and writability of the data directory at boot.
Port follows Railway. The S3 API listens on $PORT so the public domain and the /health healthcheck reach it.
Generated keys. RUSTFS_ACCESS_KEY and RUSTFS_SECRET_KEY are random per deploy, so the well-known default credentials are never live on a public URL.
Data dir under the mount. Objects are stored in a subdirectory of /data, so the volume's lost+found never lands in the store.

Why Deploy

S3 endpoint on a public HTTPS URL plus a private URL for services in the same project
Keys and endpoints preset as variables: S3_ENDPOINT, S3_PRIVATE_ENDPOINT, access and secret key
Buckets and objects survive redeploys
The admin console runs on port 9001 and stays private; it is not exposed publicly

Common Use Cases

Self-hosted S3 storage for application uploads and media
Backup target for databases and tools such as restic or rclone
A MinIO-style store for development and staging environments
Artifact and dataset storage for AI and data pipelines

Dependencies for RustFS Hosting

None. RustFS runs as one service with a volume at /data.

Deployment Dependencies

RustFS: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs
Documentation: https://docs.rustfs.com/
Official image: https://hub.docker.com/r/rustfs/rustfs

Implementation Details

Variable	Purpose
`RUSTFS_ACCESS_KEY`	S3 access key, generated per deploy.
`RUSTFS_SECRET_KEY`	S3 secret key, generated per deploy. Keep it server-side.
`S3_ENDPOINT`	Public HTTPS S3 endpoint.
`S3_PRIVATE_ENDPOINT`	Private endpoint for services in the same Railway project.

Use path-style addressing and any region, for example aws --endpoint-url $S3_ENDPOINT s3 mb s3://my-bucket.

Why Deploy RustFS 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 RustFS 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.