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Dev tools · April 24, 2024

Kamal Handbook

The missing manual

Kamal Handbook launched on April 24, 2024 with 43 votes, #698 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

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

The missing manual to Kamal deployment tool by Josef Strzibny

Kamal Handbook is the missing manual for the new Kamal deploy tool which lets you run Docker in production with minimal effort. ❝ 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 . ❝ This is my first book from Josef after reading a lot of his posts on Twitter (X). I really like the writing and the level of detail of how kamal works . Also taking a little more than 'just deploying' into account is extraordinary. Great work! ❝ As a developer who recently migrated from Heroku, I found the Kamal Handbook…from kamalmanual.com

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