Hey, Railway has no IaC support as of yet, depending on your use case you could create a template of your project or duplicate your environment through the dashboard.

There's a terraform provider maintained by the community but I've heard that it's not in a good state.

There's a feedback thread where people is asking for it but I kinda agree with Railway at some points, Railway main benefit is their dashboard
https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1468011203648426166

Best IaC approach

Hi, just read the thread. I like Railway's canva and how easily it is to build an infra "visually".
But I don't understand how it's incompatible with docker-compose?
Having a predictible way to reproduce the same services across different environments is important, I guess

Railway has basic support for docker-compose though, you can click and drop your config onto Railway and it'll try its best to map it to Railway services

And any reason on why you can't use the duplicate environment feature from Railway?

Oh, okay, I've read several posts on station.railway.com asking for docker-compose support, and I haven't seen any updates informing us that this support has been added, my bad.

Well I can't use this on my machine 😅

Yep, it's been awhile since it's supported but again, its a really basic support and not all docker-compose features all supported

For the moment, my project only includes:

• a Tanstack Start app

• an Elysia.js API

• a basic Redis

• Postgres as a custom Dockerfile, forked from Railway's postgres-ssl, that adds some extensions

In your opinion: what's the best option available to me, both locally and on Railway, to describe and manage services using code, not a dashboard?

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