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Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on the last mile that nobody teaches well
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Course · 6 lessons
~48 hr
Intermediate
Deployment, Infrastructure & Production Operations
Master deploying and operating Rails in production — from Docker to Kubernetes to Kamal, plus CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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Complete Modern Rails — Hotwire, Turbo & the Frontend Story first.
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Read: Docker for Rails Developers (Ridley)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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Kamal documentation
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Read: Deploying Rails with Docker, Kubernetes and ECS
Approach: SELECTIVE: Docker + Kubernetes chapters, skim ECS
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Kamal documentation
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Read: Reliably Deploying Rails Applications
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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Kamal documentation
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Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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Checkpoint: Deploy a Rails app using Kamal (or Docker + Kubernetes) w...
Deploy a Rails app using Kamal (or Docker + Kubernetes) with: CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions), zero-downtime deploys, health checks, log aggregation, and basic observability (metr…
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6 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.