Integrations

Project Tokens

Project tokens can be used in environments where you cannot login (e.g. remote servers or CI). You can create project tokens for a specific Railway environment on the project page.

Project tokens allow the CLI to access all the environment variables associated with a specific project and environment. Use the token by setting the RAILWAY_TOKEN environment variable and then running railway run.

Serverless Platforms

Vercel

Use the Railway Vercel integration to provide your production and preview deploys with access to your Railway environments.

Under Project Settings > Integrations in your project dashboard, you can connect to your Vercel account, specify a team, project, and production/preview environments. We will then provide your production and preview deploys on Vercel with all the environment variables needed to connect to your Railway environments.

This allows you to keep production and preview deploy databases separate.

Other Platforms

We are working on adding more integrations to various serverless platforms. However, if you want to use Railway for a platform we do not support, you can manually add the environment variables for each plugin (e.g. the DATABASE_URL for the Postgres plugin).

Self Hosted Server

You can deploy to a separate server (e.g. AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean) and still connect to your Railway plugins. On the server, you can either login to the CLI with railway login or use a project token. Then prefix the server start command with railway run.

GitHub Integration

Railway uses GitHub to source account or organizational repos provided the Railway app is given the correct permissions.

Railway Deployment Checks

GitHub Commits have a status check to indicate the status of the Railway build. This applies for both PRs and all commits that auto deploy to Railway.

Secrets Management

It's common for developers to store secrets in environment variables. However, this can be a security risk if you accidentally commit your secrets to a public repository. To avoid this, you can use a secrets management tool to store your secrets in a secure location. Railway supports Doppler as a secrets management tool. You can use Doppler to manage your Railway environment variables using the Railway Integration that Doppler provides.

Doppler

You can get instructions on how to use Doppler with Railway on the Doppler Docs.