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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

Self Hosted App

#543 Jan 4, 2026 free

In this episode, we'll go from a fresh Rails 8 application and a newly provisioned Raspberry Pi to deploying the application on the PI. We'll also set up a domain to point to this application and put in place geo restrictions to help prevent unwanted access.

rails kamal deployment cloudflare

Kamal Rollback

#542 Dec 28, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at a few different scenarios on using the rollback functionality within Kamal. We'll also explore some best practices when developing our applications and some things to be aware of about the rollback feature.

rails deployment kamal

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.

ruby kamal deployment

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

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

Password Managers

#518 Jul 13, 2025 pro

In this episode, we're going to look at using password managers (1Password and Bitwarden) to pass secrets into Kamal for deploying our applications.

rails deploy kamal

Kamal 2 in Github Actions

#513 Jun 8, 2025 pro

In this episode we take a look at Github Actions again, but with Kamal 2. Not too much has changed, but there are some differences in the approach on caching and a few other things that have changed since the initial release of Kamal.

rails kamal deploy deployment

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

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.