---
title: "Deploy your Swift on the Server apps with Kamal 2"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/deploy-your-swift-on-the-server-apps-with-kamal-2-bj3h725lv
source_url: https://tuist.dev/blog/2024/09/28/kamal-two-swift-server
type: article
source: "\n      Tuist\n    "
published: 2026-08-23T12:23:49.645Z
updated: 2026-08-23T12:59:58.515Z
tags: ["docker", "cicd", "swift", "kamal"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Deploy your Swift on the Server apps with Kamal 2

**[
      Tuist
    ](https://daily.dev/sources/tuist-blog)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide walks through deploying a Swift on the Server app (Vapor or Hummingbird) using Kamal 2, a Ruby-based CLI for deploying containerized apps to any SSH-accessible server without relying on a PaaS. It covers installing Kamal, provisioning a Hetzner server, creating a Dockerfile-based Swift app, writing the Kamal YAML configuration, running kamal setup and kamal deploy, and enabling automatic HTTPS via Let's Encrypt.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://tuist.dev/blog/2024/09/28/kamal-two-swift-server>

## Questions this post answers

### How do I deploy a Vapor or Hummingbird Swift server app without using a PaaS like Heroku or Fly.io?

Use Kamal, a Ruby-based CLI that deploys containerized apps to any SSH-accessible server. It requires an OCI-compliant Dockerfile, an image registry, and an SSH-accessible server such as one from Hetzner. Configuration lives in a YAML file at config/deploy.yml, and deployment happens by running kamal setup followed by kamal deploy, giving zero-downtime rollouts without PaaS costs.

_daily.dev surfaces practical deployment guides for developers weighing PaaS versus self-hosted setups like Kamal._

### How do I enable automatic HTTPS for an app deployed with Kamal?

Add ssl: true and a host field under the proxy section in config/deploy.yml, specifying your domain name. Kamal then automatically requests a certificate from Let's Encrypt and configures its built-in proxy to serve the app over HTTPS, removing the need to manually manage certificates or a separate reverse proxy.

_Developers configuring TLS for self-hosted deployments can find setup walkthroughs like this on daily.dev._

### What do I need before I can deploy an app with Kamal?

You need three things: an OCI-compliant container image built from a Dockerfile, a registry to push and pull that image from (Docker Hub is used by default, though GitHub Packages and DigitalOcean also work), and a server reachable over SSH. Kamal handles installing dependencies and orchestrating zero-downtime deploys once these are in place.

_daily.dev helps developers comparing self-hosted deployment tooling like Kamal against managed platforms._

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Tags: [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#swift](https://daily.dev/tags/swift), [#kamal](https://daily.dev/tags/kamal)

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