I’m standardizing all my side projects to deploy via kamal, even ones not running Rails.

Quick tip, make sure you have a reasonable health check in place. By default, Kamal will try to hit /up. My Hugo site does not have that so the deploy.yml needs to be updated:

proxy:
  ssl: true
  hosts:
    - jbennett.me 
    - www.jbennett.me
  healthcheck:
    path: /

This looks for the site root to be accessible which is enough.