Kamal Desktop Manager
Kamal Desktop Manager is a desktop app for the Kamal apps you run. It brings deploys, logs, host metrics, the proxy and a Rails console together, instead of a terminal tab for each.
Point it at a folder with config/deploy.yml and it reads the config through Kamal itself, so destinations, roles and hosts always match what kamal sees.
What it does
- Containers: running versions, stale containers from half-finished deploys and the ones kept for rollback, per host and role, with CPU, memory and disk refreshed every 5 seconds.
- Runs: deploy, redeploy, roll back, lock and unlock with streamed output. Every run is kept with its git SHA, duration and full log.
- Logs: follow any container with
--grepand--since, then pause, search and copy. - Proxy: which hostname routes to which container, whether TLS is on, and a per-minute view of 2xx–5xx responses from kamal-proxy.
- Console: an embedded terminal running
kamal app exec -i, so the Rails console is one click away.
How it works
Writes go through your own kamal CLI, with your Ruby from rbenv, asdf or mise, so there’s no re-implemented deploy logic to drift from upstream. Reads go straight over SSH: one multiplexed connection per host runs a single batched command per poll.
There’s no server and no agent on your hosts. It uses your existing ~/.ssh/config, refuses hosts that aren’t in known_hosts, never stores secrets, and asks for a typed confirmation before touching production.
It’s written in Rust, MIT licensed, and available for macOS 11+ on Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows and Linux builds are planned. Source and releases are on GitHub.