Kamal Handbook

The missing manual

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The missing manual

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Kamal Handbook is the missing manual for the new Kamal deploy tool which lets you run Docker in production with minimal effort.

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Hi all, Once 37signals released their new deployment tool Kamal, I was intrigued. It fits well with my 'keep it simple' deployment philosophy. I slowly adopted the tool and today I deploy all new projects with Kamal. However, I have seen people giving it a go and giving up, because the initial documentation was not enough. So I sat down for a few weeks and wrote Kamal Handbook, the missing manual to Kamal. Kamal Handbook is a short and to-the-point book on Kamal. I go through a first deploy, explain fundamental ideas, talk about configuration, show two more complex examples, and discuss topics like CD. It's a first ever book on Kamal, available as a PDF & ePUB (tested on Kindle Paperwhite), and just under 100 pages including the code and illustrations. So far I sold something over 400 copies in less than 8 weeks.

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2yr ago

I can't recommend Kamal Handbook enough! I had so many unanswered questions after reading the Kamal documentation, and the handbook pretty much answered them all. Great book, great code examples and great explanation of every aspect of Kamal

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2yr ago

Maker

@peterbrinck Thanks so much Peter 🙏

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2yr ago

Great book on what is currently the hot stuff in deploying Ruby on Rails apps. Will put this to good use for my upcoming indie projects. This will take out the pain from deployment and as DHH stated make you independent from "the cloud" 👍

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2yr ago

Maker

@ediathome Thank you Martin, appreciate the nice words.

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2yr ago

We bought it and instantly solved a couple of problems with our Rails deployment (we have a self-hosted gitlab and try to do everything with Kamal now). Invaluable resource!

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2yr ago

Maker

@till_carlos That sounds awesome Till, happy it helped!

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2yr ago

How to Digital Nomad

It's hard not to upvote a book that I, personally, found immediately useful. I've been for a long time considering going more towards self-hosted route, while I was experimenting a lot, I haven't had a courage to move some of rails projects to self-hosted solution. This book gave me the confidence to move all my Rails projects to Hetzner!

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2yr ago

Maker

@lunat1que Happy to hear that Stanislav, thanks for commenting!

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2yr ago

Great book. Takes you through all the corners of Kamal and makes it easy to understand what you need to know to deploy your app.

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2yr ago

Awesome book with great visuals. Really learned a lot, thank you!

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2yr ago

Maker

@jasanf Thank you Jasan for the kind words.

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2yr ago

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