Kamal

I come from the Ruby on Rails world and the latest popular tool in that community is Kamal. Kamal is a useful tool to quickly deploy a Rails application to a server and manage other deployed services through what Kamal calls “accessories.” At my day job, I was tasked with building a small internal tool application using any framework I preferred, followed by deploying it to a suitable environment. I decided to use Tanstack Start and to run it on a plain old VPS. There are probably better hosting solutions, but due to the nature of the application, a VPS was perfectly sufficient. Since that was the case, I decided to go ahead and just use Kamal to manage deployments and make it easy for anyone else working on the application to do deploy as well. ...