Kamal 2 was recently released. I’ve been deploying my containerized Kirby CMS website with Kamal for several months. It is a simple method for provisioning a server and deploying an application or website. Kamal 2 makes that even simpler for single server websites and I’ve just completed updating to Kamal 2. We’ll walk through how to c...

UPDATE: Kamal 2 is out and this is much easier now. See my article on Deploying a Kirby CMS site with Kamal 2. Kirby CMS is a fantastic content management system that is simple to use and manage. I have used it to create a number of websites and have used various deployment strategies. Lately, I have used Kamal to deploy Laravel applic...

UPDATE: Kamal 2 is out and this is much easier now. See my article on Deploying a Kirby CMS site with Kamal 2. It doesn't cover everything needed for Laravel, but it gets close. I previously posted on Deploying a Laravel App with Kamal using the ServerSideUP PHP Docker image. At the end of the article, we were deploying a Laravel appli...

I’ve been working on a new app in Laravel and was ready to deploy it so I could begin using an early version. Kamal has been on my radar as a deployment tool to simplify server setup and deployment, while maintaining flexibility on future choices, like cloud vendor or even my own servers. The Kamal documentation and early tutorial vide...