---
title: "Deploy unkey railway template"
description: "Deploy and Host unkey railway template with Railway"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/unkey-railway-template
---

# Deploy unkey railway template

Deploy and Host unkey railway template with Railway

**[Deploy unkey railway template on Railway](https://railway.com/template/unkey-railway-template)**

- **Creator:** Ehab Khedr 's Projects
- **Category:** Other
- **Total deploys:** 2

## Template content

### MySQL https://devicons.railway.app/i/mysql.svg

- **Image:** mysql:9.4
- **Start command:** `docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld --innodb-use-native-aio=0 --disable-log-bin --performance_schema=0 --innodb-buffer-pool-size=1G`

### Redis https://cdn.sanity.io/images/sy1jschh/production/0ce0bfdcfbdbf69662b1116671f97c2dd788b655-157x157.svg

- **Image:** redis:8.2.1
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -c "rm -rf $RAILWAY_VOLUME_MOUNT_PATH/lost+found/ && exec docker-entrypoint.sh redis-server --requirepass $REDIS_PASSWORD --save 60 1 --dir $RAILWAY_VOLUME_MOUNT_PATH"`

### unkey-railway-template

- **Source:** https://github.com/EKF0/unkey-railway-template
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Unkey on Railway

Unkey is an open-source API management platform that allows developers to secure their services with low-latency API key authentication. It provides out-of-the-box features such as rate limiting, usage tracking, and temporary keys, enabling you to build and scale your API infrastructure without creating a custom authentication layer from scratch.

## About Hosting Unkey

Hosting Unkey involves deploying a high-performance Go-based backend alongside supporting data services. Unkey is designed for speed (targeting <40ms key verification), and its architecture relies on MySQL for persistent data such as API configs, key metadata, and encrypted hashes, and Redis for real-time state management and rate-limiting counters. The modern Unkey stack is fully self-hostable, meaning you can run the API entirely using open-source databases with no PlanetScale or Clerk dependencies required. Railway simplifies this process by provisioning databases automatically, injecting environment variables securely, and connecting services via a private internal network.

## Why Deploy
Railway is a single platform for deploying full infrastructure stacks. With zero-config database provisioning, secure internal networking, automatic environment variable injection between services, and both vertical and horizontal scaling, Railway eliminates infrastructure management overhead
## Common Use Cases

- **SaaS API Authentication** — Issue and manage unique API keys for customers with built-in revocation and rotation
- **AI / LLM Usage Guardrails** — Apply per-user rate limits and usage caps to prevent runaway AI costs
- **Microservices Gateway** — Secure internal service-to-service communication using short-lived or metadata-tagged keys

## Dependencies for Unkey Hosting

- **MySQL** — Stores API configurations, key metadata, and encrypted key hashes
- **Redis** — Provides high-speed rate limiting counters and distributed cache state

### Deployment Dependencies

- [Unkey GitHub Repository](https://github.com/unkeyed/unkey)
- [Template Source](https://github.com/EKF0/unkey-railway-template)
- [Railway MySQL Documentation](https://docs.railway.com/databases/mysql)

## Implementation Details

When configuring Unkey on Railway, the database URL must use the Go MySQL driver format and Redis must use the standard redis:// scheme:


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