Kamal: a revolution in deployment, or how to escape cloud slavery
2025-12-23
Over the last ten years the web application deployment industry has evolved from FTP scripts and rsync to highly complex orchestration systems.
Today developers and small teams increasingly face a difficult choice:
- either pay a significant premium for the convenience of PaaS platforms (Heroku, Render, Fly.io),
- or dive into the cognitive and operational complexity of Kubernetes.
Kamal offers a third way: the convenience of modern cloud services — on your own server.