Build & Deploy

Railway supports three types of compute: persistent services for long-running processes like web apps and APIs, cron jobs for scheduled tasks, and functions for single-file TypeScript code.

Configure your services with variables to manage secrets and configuration values, and organize them across environments to support different stages of your workflow. From there, control how your code is built and deployed.

Compute primitives

Topic	Description
Services	Long-running processes like web apps, APIs, and background workers.
Cron Jobs	Scheduled tasks that run on a defined cadence and exit on completion.
Functions	Single-file TypeScript code deployed directly from the canvas.

Configuration

Topic	Description
Environments	Manage different stages of your workflow with static and ephemeral environments.
Variables	Manage configuration values and secrets for your services.
Config as Code	Define your Railway configuration in code with railway.toml.

Builds

Topic	Description
Builds	Understand how Railway builds your applications.
Build Configuration	Configure build settings for your services.
Dockerfiles	Use Dockerfiles to define custom build processes.
Railpack	Railway's next-generation build system.
Nixpacks	The Nixpacks build system.

Deployments

Topic	Description
Deployments	Understand the deployment lifecycle on Railway.
GitHub Autodeploys	Automatically deploy when you push to GitHub.
Healthchecks	Configure healthchecks to ensure your services are running correctly.
Scaling	Scale your services horizontally and vertically.
Regions	Deploy to specific regions around the world.