Deploy Authorizer on Railway
Introduction
This guide explains how to deploy a ready-to-use Authorizer instance on Railway.
Railway (opens in a new tab) is a deployment platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud.
Railway aims to be the simplest way to develop, deploy, and diagnose issues with your application.
Requirements
To follow along, you need a Railway account (opens in a new tab). If you don't have one, you can visit the link above and click on "Login" in the top right corner to log in either with your GitHub account or email.
Deploy an Authorizer Instance
Deploy production ready Authorizer instance using railway.app (opens in a new tab) with postgres and redis for free
Click the button below to deploy an Authorizer instance to Railway quickly.
Follow the below steps after clicking the button:
Before getting started on below steps make sure you have given permission to railway for further deployments as it will create a repository in your github account.
Setup Instance
- Open authorizer instance endpoint in browser
- Sign up as an admin with a secure password
- Configure environment variables from authorizer dashboard. Check env docs for more information
Note:
DATABASE_URL,DATABASE_TYPEandDATABASE_NAMEare only configurable via platform envs
Update Instance
Update existing Authorizer on existing instance
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You can update the Docker image (opens in a new tab) to the desired version in your repository which gets created with your deployment.
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You can find all the versions on GitHub (opens in a new tab) or dockerhub (opens in a new tab)