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The shortcut: do it with Railyard Everything above, Postgres and Redis wired to all three Rails-based processes, the streaming service split out with its own routing, Sidekiq sharing the media volume, is also what Railyard’s Mastodon stack template sets up for you. Connect a server, then pick Mastodon in the templates catalog: app.railyard.run/deploy?stack=mastodon-stack. Railyard generates every secret from Step 2 for you and wires the database, Redis and streaming URLs automatically; you still add your own SMTP provider afterward, the same as Step 2 above, Railyard doesn’t configure one for you either, and uploaded media still defaults to a shared local volume unless you point it at object storage yourself. See deploy with a button and databases and backups for how templates and persistent data work on the platform more generally.