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Easy Infrastructure

#355 Jun 26, 2022 pro

Continuing on from the previous episode, we look at creating a Docker Swarm cluster and using Traefik to load balance and route requests to various applications. Using this and CloudFlare proxies, we're able to create and deploy hobby applications in minutes.

rails infrastructure deployment docker

AWS App Runner

#298 May 30, 2021 pro

Amazon's newest hosting service, App Runner, makes it fairly easy to deploy web services. In this episode, we take a look at some of the issues with App Runner as well as how we can deploy a Docker container image to the service. We also dive into building Docker images from an Apple M1 computer and pushing to Elastic Container Registry.

deployment docker production rails

Kamal Logs

#488 Dec 22, 2024 pro

In this episode we will look at shipping our application logs to a third party service. There are many ways to do this, but since we're using Kamal, we'll explore the most unobtrusive way without adding any gems.

rails kamal infrastructure

MRSK in Depth

#392 Mar 12, 2023 pro

Continuing from the previous episode, we look at speeding up the build times with a remote builder, continued warning about accessories, implementing background jobs, setting up the infrastructure for background workers and diving more into the Kamal (MRSK) commands.

rails deploy deployment infrastructure

Kamal Staging

#555 Mar 29, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at creating a staging environment that will be provisioned and deployed through Kamal. A stating environment can be simple or a production like infrastructure that mimics the production environment.

rails kamal deployment

Credentials Override

#545 Jan 18, 2026 pro

In this episode, we look at an interesting approach to override Rails Credentials so each developer can customize the credentials without changing the credentials file.

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Kamal with Non-Rails Apps

#538 Nov 30, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at using Kamal to deploy a Python application to a server.

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Kamal Registry

#535 Nov 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll look at the two of my favorite changes in the recent Kamal releases. We'll explore some of the flows that the new registry uses and some things to be aware of.

rails kamal deployment

Active Job Continuations

#533 Oct 26, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll explore a new Rails 8.1 feature that allows background jobs to "pick up where they left off." We'll look at how the new Continuations feature helps prevent long-running jobs from being lost during deployments, and some important nuances to keep in mind when using it.

rails activejob

Kamal Logs Upload

#531 Oct 12, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at shipping application logs via the Kamal Hooks to a webhook endpoint. We'll use Discord as the final log storage.

rails deploy kamal

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