Kamal Handbook
Kamal Handbook: The missing manual is a short and practical book on Kamal deployment tool. It's the first and currently the only book about Kamal.
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Last update: 27. 3. 2024.
What will you learn?
First, we explain what Kamal is, look how Kamals works on the surface, and go through the first deploy. Then we’ll dive more into Kamal’s server configuration and use the new knowledge for deploying 2 more complex examples. At last, we have a look on logging, debugging, CI/CD, and handling backups.
Foreword
Donal McBreen, Lead Programmer at 37signals, and one of the main contributors to Kamal, wrote a foreword to the 1st edition.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Workflow
- Prerequisites
- Installation
- The first deploy
- Server configuration
- Environment
- Traefik
- Destinations
- Volumes and data
- Assets
- Accessories
- Logging
- Maintenance
- Examples
- Debugging
- CI/CD
- Cron
- Backups
- Wrap-up
What you'll get?
You'll get PDF and ePUB copies. The ePUB is tested on Apple Books and Kindle.
FAQ
Is this book just for Rails?
Kamal is framework-independent and so I wrote the book in a general way, only mentioning assumptions about one's Dockerfile. Bring your Dockerfile and you are good.
Is this only for Ubuntu?
Kamal doesn't tie itself with any particular Linux flavor so you can use your favourite. The small provisioning examples in the book are tested against Ubuntu 22 LTS.
Author
Hello, I am Josef, a formal Linux packager at Red Hat and an author of Deployment from Scratch. Once I found Kamal, I dived in and never looked back. I am now running everything with Kamal for myself and my clients. In the book I am sharing everything I know, so you are confident to do the same.