Deploy and Host Vaultwarden on Railway

What is Vaultwarden?
Vaultwarden is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted password manager written in Rust. Fully compatible with Bitwarden clients and browser extensions, it delivers secure, end-to-end encrypted vault management with minimal resource usage—ideal for personal or team use and optimised for deployment on Railway.

About Hosting Vaultwarden

Hosting Vaultwarden on Railway is simple, fast, and production-ready. You’ll run Vaultwarden as a Docker container alongside a PostgreSQL database, all configured via environment variables—Railway manages builds, secrets, logs, and scaling automatically. A dedicated Railway volume ensures persistent storage for Vaultwarden data, including attachments and encrypted vault entries, surviving redeployments without manual config files. It’s a resilient, scalable password vault solution you can spin up with minimal overhead.

Common Use Cases

• Secure Personal Vault: Manage your passwords, secure notes, and 2FA secrets without relying on third-party services.
• Team or Family Sharing: Create organisations, share logins securely, and manage access with roles and collections.
• Low-Resource Hosting: Perfect for lightweight VPS, Raspberry Pi, or Railway—runs efficiently without high memory or CPU demand.

Dependencies for Vaultwarden Hosting

• Vaultwarden Docker Image (Rust-based, minimal footprint)
• PostgreSQL 17 Database for secure, scalable data storage
• Railway Volume dedicated to Vaultwarden’s persistent storage (attachments, vault data)

Deployment Dependencies

• Vaultwarden GitHub Repository (dani-garcia/vaultwarden) — for Docker image, documentation, and configuration guidance.
• Railway Platform — handles Docker deployment, volume provisioning, environment-variable configuration, logs, and autoscaling.

Why Deploy Vaultwarden 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 Vaultwarden 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.