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by stackskipton 591 days ago
I've looked into Kamal but it feels so "It's as complex as Kubernetes but isn't so support is going to be nightmarish."

Why is this better then Ansible + Docker Compose?
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petcat 591 days ago
You could certainly implement Kamal just with Ansible and Docker Compose. It's just an abstraction that does it for you and handles all the edge-cases. (Kamal doesn't use Ansible, it has its own SSH lib).
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amzans 590 days ago
Technically, it’s not much different from using Ansible to run Docker on remote hosts.

What it provides is a set of conventions based on what most web apps look like.

Eg. built-in proxy with automatic TLS and zero downtime deployments, first-class support for a DB and cache, encrypted secrets, etc.

It’s definitely not for every use case, but for your typical 3-tier monolith on a handful of servers I found it does the job well.

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