Introduction

When to use this guide

• You deploy to one VPS or bare-metal server.
• You want simple operations and fast setup.

What this guide covers

• SSH keypair generation.
• Basic server setup (short version).
• Kamal setup for app and accessories.
• Deploy setup for manual deploy and GitHub Actions.
• Daily Postgres backup and restore.

Stack used in this example

• Server: Hetzner (single host or multiple hosts)
• Deploy tool: Kamal
• App runtime: any runtime that can run in Docker
• Data: Postgres + Redis accessories
• Backups: eeshugerman/postgres-backup-s3 to Hetzner Object Storage

Delivery order

1. Complete all pages in Setup.
2. Complete pages in Deployment.
3. Complete the Operations page for backup/restore.
4. Run verification from each page.