Summary

Kamal is a great utility for deploying your application to a server. It can handle many different kinds of use cases. However, there is some disconnect on how to use it within a CI/CD pipeline. In this episode, we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application with SQLite to a virtual machine using Kamal within GitHub Actions.
rails 7.1 deploy deployment ci/cd 31:01

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Chapters

• Introduction (0:00)
• Installing and configuring Kamal (3:43)
• Setting up the VM (9:11)
• Setting up GitHub Actions (15:56)
• Configuring the config/deploy.yml.prod (22:06)
• Setting up GItHub and Secrets (23:03)
• Deploying to GitHub (24:24)
• Making some code changes and deploying (26:56)
• Making another app change and deploying (29:12)
• Final thoughts (29:57)