Agile Web Development with Rails 8

Iteration L2: Deployment to the Cloud

Deploying to production isn’t hard at all; it’s just a number of small steps. And these steps will go quicker if you do them in the correct order and start with a code base that you’ve deployed locally first. But first, let’s review what resources are available:

• kamal-deploy.org^[92] contains a 32-minute video demonstrating the creation and deployment of a simple application to a Hetzner server.

• Kamal docs^[93] contains some reference material that may be useful.

• Kamal Handbook: The Missing Manual^[94] is a short and practical book and, at the time of this writing, the only book on the subject.

What follows is neither a video nor a manual, but rather a recipe. And like most recipes, it starts with assembling ...