Nick Kelly
nickftk.bsky.social
Nick Kelly
@nickftk.bsky.social
Helping companies simplify their deployment pipelines with Kamal and Terraform. Seeker of nature, coffee, craft brew, and all things Ruby.

Building https://shipyrd.io (Kamal dashboard) and running https://fromthekeyboard.com.
Been really enjoying the simplicity of the new secrets flow with Kamal 2. It's also nice to fetch your secrets from where you're already storing them. www.fromthekeyboard.com/embracing-k...
Embracing Kamal secrets
Kamal 2 ditched .env in favor of .kamal/secrets which is great because it isolates Kamal-specific configuration from your application configuration. Kamal 2 also removed the need to run kamal env push when your secrets change and instead your secrets are now pushed with each deploy. There are two main
www.fromthekeyboard.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I added a stats alias to Kamal to quickly check your Docker container stats, what are some other helpful aliases you've been using? #kamaldeploy

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December 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Just launched one of my favorite features so far to Shipyrd, environment locks with notifications via webhook or Slack. #kamaldeploy
www.fromthekeyboard.com/locking-an-...
Locking an environment in Shipyrd for your Kamal deployments
Kamal has it's own lock file that it drops on your server for each destination that you're deploying to. But really when there's more than one of you deploying, the lock starts as you prep for a deploy to go out. You usually let your team know that you're about
www.fromthekeyboard.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 PM
It really does feel like the good ol' days of Twitter over here, refreshing content and familiar faces everywhere 🙌
December 19, 2024 at 9:19 PM