5050cloud
Railway on your own servers: git deploys, databases, zero-downtime deploys.
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openrail
Railway's developer experience on servers you own.
One command turns any Linux VM into a canvas of services with git deploys, databases, logs and rollbacks. Open source. No per-seat, per-minute or per-server fees.
Watch the 90 second demo or download the MP4.
curl -fsSL https://openrail.app/install.sh | sudo sh
Or with wget: wget -qO- https://openrail.app/install.sh | sudo sh. Piped, the installer asks nothing; run from a terminal, it offers a guided setup. Every answer is also a flag or a FIFTY_* environment variable. If the site is not reachable, the same script is at install/install.sh.
Docs: openrail.app/docs
Features
- Canvas, environments and staged changes: the Railway workflow, with a diff before every deploy.
- Deploy anything: GitHub repos (Railpack or Dockerfile), Docker images, or a directory with
openrail up. - Databases in one click: Postgres, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB, with Railway's variable names.
- Variables with references:
${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}and${{shared.KEY}}, the same syntax as Railway. - Backups to any S3-compatible bucket: point-in-time restore for Postgres, restore to a copy, promote.
- Zero-downtime deploys for services without a volume, health checks, and rollbacks that restore variables.
- More hosts with one command: agents dial out, so no inbound management port; replicas across hosts; private networking over WireGuard.
- Use all cores: run one process per vCPU, with Node cluster mode built in.
- Custom domains with automatic HTTPS, TCP proxies, logs with Railway's filter syntax, metrics for 30 days, monitors and alerts.
- Move from Railway:
openrail import railway,railway.jsonhonoured, and arailwayCLI alias. - Self-reverting upgrades and control plane state streamed to your bucket.
Status: v0.1.0 is an early release. A fresh single-host install was smoke tested end to end: sign-up, an image deploy, a generated HTTPS domain, and Postgres with a variable reference. Multi-host, backups, upgrades and the Railway import are built but have not yet been through the full release test suite on fresh VMs.
Read the honest limits before you rely on it: one control host, databases on one host each, IPv4 only, Ubuntu 24.04 tested.
CLI
curl -fsSL https://openrail.app/install.sh | sh -s -- --cli
openrail login https://console.example.com
openrail up --new
See the CLI reference.
Repository
| Path | What |
|---|---|
cmd/5050d, internal/cp | Control plane and console API |
cmd/5050-agent, internal/agent | Host agent: runtime, builds, networking, ingress |
cmd/openrail, internal/cli | The CLI |
web/ | The console |
pkg/ | API, agent protocol and manifest types |
templates/ | Database and app templates |
install/ | The installer and systemd units |
site/ | This project's website and docs |
e2e/, examples/ | End-to-end tests and sample apps |
Build from source: see CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
The server and console are AGPL-3.0-only. The CLI, pkg/, templates/, examples/, install/ and site/ are MIT. See LICENSING.md.
Security issues: see SECURITY.md. openrail is an independent project and is not affiliated with Railway.