We built the half of the job Kamal was never for.

We are a small team running our own Rails applications on Hetzner with Kamal. We got tired of the half-finished hardening checklist, the backup nobody had restored, and the SSH key three people shared. It exists because we wanted it.

Kamal builds, ships and swaps traffic, and it does that better than anything else. Everything that happens to the box before and after — creating it, locking it down, keeping it patched, proving the restore works, knowing what it costs — was still somebody's Tuesday afternoon. That is the part we built.