Redis on Railway
Deploy and host Redis on Railway. The Railway Redis database template allows you to provision and connect to a Redis database with zero configuration.
Railway simplifies your infrastructure stack from databases to servers to observability with a single, scalable, easy-to-use platform. Companies of all sizes deploy full-stack applications on Railway and benefit from highly performant networking, intuitive vertical and horizontal scaling, and isolated environments with pull request deploys. Railway's template marketplace includes thousands of one-click deploy templates, including Redis.
This is a guide to deploying Redis on Railway, using the official template.
Deploy Redis to Railway
Navigate to a new Railway project at railway.com/new. Add a Redis database to your project via the ctrl / cmd + k menu, and type Redis.
You can also deploy it via the template from the Railway template marketplace.
Upon deployment, you will have a Redis service running in your project, deployed from the redis Docker image.
Since the deployed container is pulled from the redis image in Docker Hub, you can modify the deployment based on the instructions in Docker Hub.
Connecting to your Railway Redis Service
It is possible to connect to Redis externally by using the TCP Proxy which is enabled by default.
Backup and Monitoring
Especially for production environments, performing backups and monitoring the health of your data is essential. Consider adding:
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Backups: Automate regular backups to ensure data recovery in case of failure. We suggest checking out Railway's native Backups feature.
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Observability: Implement monitoring for insights into performance and health of your Redis cluster. You can integrate a Redis exporter for Prometheus, although we do not provide a specific template at this time.