kamal-pypi

Kamal packaged for PyPI — install it with pip instead of managing a Ruby toolchain.

Note: This is an unofficial package. Kamal is developed by Basecamp. See the official repository and documentation for more information.

Why?

Kamal is a great deployment tool, but it's written in Ruby. If your team works in Python (or any non-Ruby stack), installing Kamal means setting up Ruby, RubyGems, and Bundler just to get a single CLI tool. This project eliminates that friction by packaging Kamal as a standalone binary inside a Python wheel.

Under the hood, Tebako compiles Kamal and its Ruby runtime into a single self-contained executable, and ruby-to-wheel wraps it into a Python wheel with the proper entry points.

Install

pip install kamal

or with uv:

uv pip install kamal

Usage

kamal version
kamal deploy
kamal setup

All Kamal commands work exactly as documented at kamal-deploy.org.

Platforms

Platform	Wheel tag
Linux x86_64	manylinux_2_17_x86_64
Linux ARM64	manylinux_2_17_aarch64
macOS ARM64 (Apple Silicon)	macosx_11_0_arm64

Requirements

• Python >= 3.10
• On minimal Linux containers (e.g. python:slim), you may need to install libyaml-0-2:

  apt-get install libyaml-0-2