Dang, I got it, that's so cool! I got a little distracted by the write up because it takes a different approach and I didn't pick up immediately that it was intended to be even simpler and eschew Cloudflare.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot! ❤

@devscoach

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

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Thanks!

Nice tutorial but I'm struggling to understand what benefits Kamal brings. It just seems to add another layer of abstraction over Docker. This process doesn't seem any less complicated than using docker-compose.

@devscoach

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I’m not an expert on the deploy process of docker-compose. Does it setup the servers as well? Pushing env vars, etc? The last time I tried it for deployment was 5+ years ago

@DavidMann10k

28 күн бұрын

I can take a swing at that one. Docker compose fills a lot of the same gaps, but it's not quite as "full service" as Kamal which is really specialized at deploying web servers and their "accessories". But it also supports provisioning docker and setting up everything from scratch onto a bare metal server. This creates vendor independence, because anywhere you can get an Ubuntu instance running with your SSH key you can run kamal setup/deploy, and now your server is running there now too. In my limited experience it seems more simple. It also has some fancy features that you normally only get by running through a PAAS, like Heroku, like redirecting traffic, and asset-bridging for a seamless deployment.

Should I dockerize my application before I can use kamal?

@devscoach

3 ай бұрын

Yes Kamal requires everything is a docker image to deploy. Rails has a nice gem called dockerfile-rails which makes a generator to autogenerate dockerfile if you need.

@ernestadonu9110

3 ай бұрын

@@devscoach thank you for this