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kamal-proxy

Lightweight proxy server for Kamal

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What it is

Lightweight proxy server for Kamal

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Where it is used

  • kamal — From bare metal to cloud VMs, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime. Kamal uses kamal-proxy to seamlessly switch requests between containers. Works seamlessly across multiple servers, using SSHKit to execute commands. Originally built for Rails apps, Kamal will work with any type of web app that can be containerized with Docker. Source

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2024-09-21 07:55:41 UTC to 2024-11-24 17:47:34 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsSep 162024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 142024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 18

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Sep 232024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 302024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 142024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 282024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 112024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 182024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-25 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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francislavoie·Sep 22, 2024
I'm looking here https://github.com/basecamp/kamal-proxy/tree/main/internal/s... which is the code for their v2 proxy. Notice there's a health_check.go which makes requests in a goroutine and sets the health to true/false based on the HTTP status, via a consumer interface. As I said elsewhere in this topic, this is all too basic IMO, (disclaimer: I'm a Caddy maintainer) Caddy does this all in a more robust way.
In Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments

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