---
title: "Deploy utopia"
description: "World's first open-source enterprise world model."
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/utopia
---

# Deploy utopia

World's first open-source enterprise world model.

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

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/utopia/manifest.json

- **Creator:** kmaki's Projects
- **Category:** AI/ML

## Template content

### utopia

- **Image:** ghcr.io/deeplethe/utopia:0.1.0
- **Public domain:** Yes

### utopia-db

- **Image:** pgvector/pgvector:pg16

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Utopia on Railway

Utopia is an open-source enterprise knowledge world model for building governed, time-aware organizational intelligence. It combines an ontology-driven graph, hybrid full-text and vector search, document ingestion, temporal reasoning, conflict detection, auditability, and an integrated web console in one deployable service backed by PostgreSQL with pgvector.

## About Hosting Utopia on Railway

Railway runs the Utopia web service from its published GHCR container image and provisions a PostgreSQL pgvector container alongside it. Private service networking connects the application to the database, while Railway provides HTTPS domain routing, managed deployments, logs, and restart policies.

## Tech Stack

- Rust and Axum backend
- Svelte web console bundled in the container
- PostgreSQL 16 with pgvector
- Tantivy full-text indexing
- SQLx database migrations
- OpenAI-compatible model endpoint integrations

## Why Deploy Utopia on Railway

Railway provides one-click infrastructure, private networking between services, automatic HTTPS, persistent volumes, environment variable management, and straightforward observability. This keeps the complete knowledge platform accessible without maintaining Kubernetes or a separate reverse proxy.

## Common Use Cases

- Enterprise knowledge bases and governed document repositories
- Ontology and graph exploration
- Hybrid semantic and full-text search
- Auditable research and compliance workflows
- Agentic retrieval and model-assisted knowledge extraction
- Temporal reasoning and conflict review

## Deployment Notes

The Utopia service listens on container port 1516 and exposes `PORT=1516` for Railway routing. Its database URL references the private hostname of the `utopia-db` service. PostgreSQL data is persisted at `/var/lib/postgresql/data`; application files and indexes under `/app/data` are ephemeral unless an additional volume is attached. On first launch, open the generated domain and register an account; the first account becomes the administrator. Configure chat and embedding model endpoints in system settings before ingesting documents. Pin the application image version for production upgrades.

## Dependencies for Utopia on Railway

Utopia requires a PostgreSQL 16 database with the pgvector extension. The application runs migrations automatically at startup and connects over Railway's private network.

### Deployment Dependencies

| Service | Image | Port | Volume |
|---------|-------|------|--------|
| utopia | ghcr.io/deeplethe/utopia:0.1.0 | 1516 | - |
| utopia-db | pgvector/pgvector:pg16 | 5432 | /var/lib/postgresql/data |

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