Railway Deploy

Deploy apps and databases on Railway. Covers service configuration, environment variables and secrets, Postgres/Redis plugins, private networking, cron jobs, health checks, and CI-driven deploys for zero-config full-stack hosting.

This skill helps you ship services on Railway. It configures services from a repo or Dockerfile, wires environment variables and shared secrets, provisions managed Postgres and Redis, connects services over private networking, schedules cron jobs, sets health checks and restart policies, and automates deploys from GitHub for fast full-stack hosting.

When to use

Use when deploying on Railway — service and environment configuration, secrets, managed Postgres/Redis, private networking, cron jobs, health checks, or GitHub-driven deploys.

Examples

Full-stack deploy

App + database on Railway

Deploy my Node API and a managed Postgres on Railway, wire the DATABASE_URL through private networking, and add a /health check

Scheduled job

Run a nightly task

Add a Railway cron service that runs a cleanup script every night at 2am and shares secrets with my main app service