Add and manage Railway services from the CLI

domain: railway.com · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. `railway add` interactively adds a new service.
  2. `railway add --database postgres` adds a managed Postgres; `railway add --repo user/repo` adds a service from a GitHub repo.
  3. `railway service` re-selects the active service context for the linked directory.
  4. Browse a container's filesystem with `railway service files browse /app` (TUI) and download files with `railway service files download /app/data.db ./data.db`.
  5. Scale with `railway scale` (replicas / vCPU / memory).

Known gotchas

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