---
title: "Deploy Supabase | (Just Updated) Firebase Alternative, No Keys To Paste, Data Survives Redeploys"
description: "Postgres, auth, storage, realtime and Studio. No keys to paste."
category: "Storage"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/supabase-or-just-updated-firebase-altern
---

# Deploy Supabase | (Just Updated) Firebase Alternative, No Keys To Paste, Data Survives Redeploys

Postgres, auth, storage, realtime and Studio. No keys to paste.

**[Deploy Supabase | (Just Updated) Firebase Alternative, No Keys To Paste, Data Survives Redeploys on Railway](https://railway.com/template/supabase-or-just-updated-firebase-altern)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/supabase-or-just-updated-firebase-altern/manifest.json

- **Creator:** SuperSlowSloth
- **Category:** Storage

## Template content

### meta

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-meta:0.99.0

### storage

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-storage:1.74.0

### rest

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-rest:14.17

### studio

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-studio:2026.09.07

### auth

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-auth:2.196.0

### realtime

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-realtime:2.134.10

### db

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-db:17.6.1.136

### gateway

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/supabase-railway-gateway:caddy2
- **Health check:** /healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Supabase on Railway

Supabase is the open-source Firebase alternative: a Postgres database with a REST API, user
authentication, file storage, realtime subscriptions and a dashboard (Studio) on top of it.

This template runs the self-hosted stack as eight services in one Railway project: Postgres, Auth
(GoTrue), PostgREST, Realtime, Storage, Postgres Meta, Studio and a gateway that puts all of them
behind one public domain. There is nothing to fill in at deploy time.

## About Hosting Supabase

Supabase is not one program but a set of services that share a Postgres database and one JWT secret.
The gateway routes `/auth/v1`, `/rest/v1`, `/realtime/v1` and `/storage/v1` to their services and
serves Studio, behind a login, at the root of the domain.

## Why Deploy Supabase on Railway

Most self-hosted Supabase guides start with a page of secrets to generate and paste by hand. This
template does that part for you:

- **No keys to paste.** The JWT secret is generated per deploy, and the `anon` and `service_role`
  API keys are derived from it when the services start. The listings that ask for six or more keys
  at deploy time are asking you to run a script first.
- **The dashboard is not open.** Studio sits behind a login: user `supabase`, password in the
  `DASHBOARD_PASSWORD` variable of the `gateway` service, generated per deploy.
- **Your keys are on screen, not in a script.** Sign in to Studio and open Project Settings, API; the
  `anon` and `service_role` keys and the project URL are there. The URL is the gateway's public
  domain, and sign-in links and tokens point at it from the first boot.
- **Data survives redeploys.** Postgres has a volume, so do Storage (uploaded files) and Studio
  (saved SQL snippets). The pgsodium root key is kept on the Postgres volume, so encrypted columns
  and Vault secrets still decrypt after a redeploy.
- **Verified end to end.** On a clean deploy of this template: sign-up returns a token issued for the
  project URL, REST answers with the `anon` key, a bucket was created and a file uploaded and
  fetched, the Realtime websocket upgraded, and all of it was still there after a Postgres redeploy.

## Common Use Cases

- Backend for a web or mobile app: auth, database API and file storage with no backend code
- A Firebase replacement with a normal Postgres database underneath
- Realtime features (presence, broadcast, row changes) for dashboards and collaborative apps
- A private development or staging Supabase to match a hosted project

## Dependencies for Supabase Hosting

- Three Railway volumes: Postgres data, Storage files and Studio snippets (created by the template)
- Private networking between the services (Railway project default)

### Deployment Dependencies

- Supabase self-hosting guide: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting
- Images: `supabase/postgres`, `supabase/gotrue`, `postgrest/postgrest`, `supabase/realtime`,
  `supabase/storage-api`, `supabase/postgres-meta`, `supabase/studio` and Caddy, wrapped with
  settings baked in: https://github.com/bon5co/supabase-railway

### Implementation Details

| Variable | Service | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `DASHBOARD_PASSWORD` | gateway | Studio login (user `supabase`), generated per deploy. |
| `GOTRUE_JWT_SECRET` | auth | JWT signing secret shared by all services, generated per deploy. |
| `POSTGRES_PASSWORD` | db | Password of the Postgres roles, generated per deploy. |

Point a client at the gateway's public domain:

```js
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js'
const supabase = createClient('https://', '')
```

Not included: edge functions, image transformation, the connection pooler (Supavisor), the logs
service and the asymmetric or publishable/secret key formats. The legacy `anon` and `service_role`
keys work with every supabase client library.


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