SMRTR ProgrammingMar 25, 2026Daily.dev

Stop Fearing DevOps: A Rails Developer’s Guide to Docker

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Docker simplifies Rails deployment by packaging applications into isolated containers that run identically everywhere, solving the "works on my machine" problem. Rails 8 now auto-generates Dockerfiles, while Kamal 2 uses Docker to enable zero-downtime deployments to simple Linux servers without complex Kubernetes setups, handling networking and SSL automatically.

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