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Kamal Database Backups

#485 Dec 1, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at some precautions we can take with our production environment and setup recurring backups for the database.

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Kamal Kitchen Sink

#481 Nov 3, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at creating an entire infrastructure (proxy, load balancer, app servers, worker servers, database server, and a storage server) on our own hardware use Kamal to provision and deploy our Ruby on Rails application.

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Kamal 2 with PostgreSQL

#478 Oct 13, 2024 pro

In this episode, we expand on the previous episode by changing our database from Sqlite to PostgreSQL. We'll dive into some problems and some tricks to best handle the change. While we don't perform a data migration, we'll explore different ways to handle this.

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Kamal 2

#477 Oct 6, 2024 free

In this episode we look at deploying a Rails 8 beta application to a Digital Ocean droplet. We'll also look at a scenario of deploying Action Cable broadcasts and another with recurring background jobs.

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From Heroku to Kamal

#462 Jun 23, 2024 pro

Ready to migrate your app off of Heroku? In this episode, we guide you through a full migration, from backing up data to securing your new server setup.

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Campfire Deploy with Kamal

#440 Jan 28, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at setting up our Campfire instance to be deployable with Kamal instead of the Once CLI. This has a few benefits over the standard deployment mechanism if you are going to be tweaking and making your own changes to the Campfire code. We'll also look at taking in the incoming changes from Once to rebase into our Kamal setup.

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Digital Ocean App Platform

#434 Dec 24, 2023 pro

Fly, AWS App Runner, Render and Heroku are great choices for Platform as a Service solutions, but there's Digital Ocean's App Platform. In this episode we'll look at deploying a Rails 7.1 application to this Digital Ocean PaaS.

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Kamal in GitHub Actions

#425 Oct 22, 2023 pro

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.

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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.

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Deploying with MRSK

#391 Mar 5, 2023 free

Kamal (MRSK) deploys web apps anywhere from bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker with zero downtime. In this episode, we will set up a Digital Ocean infrastructure with a Load Balancer, Virtual Machines, and a PostgreSQL database. We'll use Kamal (MRSK) to provision and deploy our Rails application to the Virtual Machines.

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