---
title: "Using Kamal 2.0 in Production"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-kamal-2-0-in-production-jsavdthl9
source_url: https://fly.io/blog/kamal-in-production/
type: article
source: "Fly.io"
published: 2025-05-29T12:32:13.852Z
updated: 2026-04-23T02:15:03.468Z
tags: ["cicd", "devops", "docker", "kamal", "rails"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 11
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Using Kamal 2.0 in Production

**[Fly.io](https://daily.dev/sources/flydotio)** · 3 min read · 11 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

A comprehensive guide to using Kamal 2.0 for production deployments has been published online, covering the seven essential requirements for getting started and addressing gaps in existing documentation. The guide goes beyond basic tutorials to include production considerations like Docker ecosystem setup, container repositories, load balancers, managed databases, monitoring, logging, and security. It provides opinionated recommendations with alternatives for hosting providers, SSH keys, and other deployment components that real-world projects require.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://fly.io/blog/kamal-in-production/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@xidib78169** · 0 upvotes

> I agree that Kamal is a great tool. Deploying Rails apps has become much easier compared to a few years ago.
> However, as mentioned in this post, putting everything into Docker is a challenging task.
> Recently, I found a deployment method where I simply rsync a single binary built with Go.
> The experience felt like I had wings.

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

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