Documentation

LaunchPad docs

Task-focused guides for running apps on LaunchPad — deploying with Kamal, protecting and restoring your databases, and operating production safely.

Basics

Getting started

Connect Hetzner, add a server, and ship your first Rails app.

Connecting an existing server

Prerequisites, SSH key requirements, and what LaunchPad does when you bring your own server.

Deploying an app

How LaunchPad builds and ships your app with Kamal, and what each deploy does.

Rolling back a deploy

Pre-deploy backups, automatic rollback on a failed health check, and manual recovery.

Backups & retention

Automated pg_dump backups, client-side AES-256-GCM encryption, Backblaze B2 storage, schedules, retention, and restore drills.

Restoring a backup

Safe swap restore, full restore, and verification — step by step.

Point-in-time recovery (WAL)

Continuous WAL archiving and recovering a database to a specific second.

Database connections & Puma

Connection limits on self-hosted PostgreSQL and how to size Puma concurrency.

Setting up GitHub OAuth

Configure GITHUB_CLIENT_ID and GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET so GitHub sign-in and the repo picker work.