Quickstart for Trek

Trek lets you and your travel companions plan a trip together in real time, dragging places between days, tracking budgets and bookings, and maintaining packing lists, all from a self-hosted server rather than a commercial trip-planning app. It integrates interactive maps (Leaflet, Mapbox or MapLibre) with route planning, weather forecasts, and public-transport itineraries for a given destination. Sign-in supports OIDC SSO, passkeys (WebAuthn) and TOTP multi-factor authentication, alongside standard email/password login. It's open-core: the deployed edition is MIT-licensed, with a paid ee directory reserved for future Pro/Enterprise features, though none exist in the repo yet. This deploy bundles a Postgres database and a pgAdmin console alongside the main app.

Deploy Trek on Elestio

1. Open the Trek deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run Trek properly (at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. Trek is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access Trek

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your Trek instance.

If the password field is blank, Trek does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to Trek (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the Trek version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn Trek: read the official Trek documentation.