Deploy and Host Valkey on Railway

What is Valkey?
Valkey is an open-source, high-performance in-memory key/value datastore created as a modern fork of Redis OSS under a permissive BSD license. It supports rich data structures and high-throughput workloads, making it ideal for caching, message queuing, real-time analytics, and more.

About Hosting Valkey

Hosting Valkey on Railway is streamlined and production-ready. You’ll deploy Valkey using the official Docker image, alongside a persistent volume for data durability, all configured via environment variables. Railway handles secrets, logs, deployment pipelines and horizontal/vertical scaling. With a dedicated Railway volume for storing the Valkey data directory, your key/value store persists across restarts and updates without manual config file edits. The setup delivers a self-hosted high-performance datastore stack that you can spin up in minutes and scale as your application demands grow.

Common Use Cases

High-Speed Caching: Use Valkey as a blazing-fast cache layer to reduce database load and accelerate response times.
Real-Time Messaging / Queues: Leverage Valkey’s data structures (lists, streams) for pub/sub, task queues or event pipelines at scale.
Primary NoSQL Store for Low-Latency Needs: Employ Valkey as a primary datastore for workloads requiring sub-millisecond latency and high concurrency.

Dependencies for Valkey Hosting

Valkey Docker Image (e.g., valkey/valkey)
Persistent Railway Volume for Valkey data directory, ensuring durability across deployments.
Railway Environment Variables for configuration (no manual config files).

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Valkey 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 Valkey 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.