One of the nice features of Digital Ocean is the ability to in-place upgrade their virtual machines.
Do you want to deploy an auxiliary service that comes with a dashboard? Then you might want to proxy it with Kamal Proxy.
Sometimes background jobs take a while to complete but you need to deploy new versions in the meantime, what now?
Kamal finally came with one its most awaited feature called maintenance mode. The new maintenance mode let's us open a downtime maintenance window for our apps to do any necessary updates and migrations.
Kamal now allows a bit more flexibility in the way the Proxy is being run.
Kamal's built-in SSL handling is pretty neat. Now it gets better by letting users disable the HTTP to HTTPS redirect which was happening automatically.
There's nothing worse in deploying Docker than an insecure bulky Docker image that's time consuming to rebuild. Here's how we can review the image layers.
Digital Ocean host metrics is one of my favourite feature when self-hosting my apps. Here's how to use them
