Deploy and Host Unkey API Management on Railway

Unkey is an open-source API management platform built for scale. It handles API key creation, validation, and rate-limiting with sub-millisecond latency. Whether you are building a public API or securing internal services, Unkey gives you analytics, root key management, and instant key verification without bogging down your application.

About Hosting Unkey API Management

Hosting Unkey yourself means you fully control your own API key data and infrastructure. Since Unkey recently moved away from a serverless-only architecture, deploying it requires setting up a few moving parts.

You need the main Unkey application running alongside a MySQL database, which acts as the primary storage for your keys, workspaces, and configurations. You also need a Redis instance, which Unkey relies on heavily to process incredibly fast rate-limiting and distributed counters. Wiring these together manually can be a headache, but this Railway template links the database connections and caching layers automatically through environment variables so it works right out of the box.

Common Use Cases

• Securing public-facing SaaS APIs with granular, user-specific rate limits.
• Managing internal microservice authentication and access controls securely.
• Tracking API usage analytics to monitor traffic spikes or bill customers based on usage.

Dependencies for Unkey API Management Hosting

• MySQL: The primary database used to store API keys, user data, and workspace configurations.
• Redis: The in-memory data store used to process high-speed rate limits and temporary counters.

Deployment Dependencies

• Unkey GitHub Repository: https://github.com/unkeyed/unkey
• Unkey Official Documentation: https://unkey.com/docs

Why Deploy Unkey API Management 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 Unkey API Management 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.

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 Unkey API Management 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.