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Field guides for the part after it works on localhost.
Practical, opinionated reading for the people who build and operate the software, from your first container to agents that touch production.
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- Topics
- 11 areas
- Reading time
- 94 min in total
- Levels
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You built it with an AI. Here is how to ship it.
A working localhost is most of an application and very little of a deployment. What is missing, in order, and how the Kapten crew handles each step.
BeginnerRead · 8 minConnect Kapten to Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Cursor
Add the Kapten MCP server to your coding assistant, sign in, choose a scope and run your first five prompts.
BeginnerRead · 7 min
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You built it with an AI. Here is how to ship it.
A working localhost is most of an application and very little of a deployment. What is missing, in order, and how the Kapten crew handles each step.Beginner8 min · 13 October 2026Connect Kapten to Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Cursor
Add the Kapten MCP server to your coding assistant, sign in, choose a scope and run your first five prompts.Beginner7 min · 13 October 2026Before your first production deployment
A practical checklist for the application, the environment and the team that will operate them.Beginner5 min · 13 October 2026How multi-agent workflows run
What happens between your prompt and the plan you approve, including how Kapten splits the work, how specialists run in parallel, and how to read the result.Intermediate8 min · 13 October 2026Guardrails for agents that touch production
Scopes, approval tokens, named owners, budget caps, a scoped cloud role and an audit trail in your own account, and why plans are the defence against prompt injection.Advanced9 min · 13 October 2026Containerize any app: a practical Dockerfile checklist
Turn a working repository into a reproducible image. Short Dockerfiles for Node, Python and Go, and the ten rules that make them production-worthy.Beginner8 min · 13 October 2026Secrets and configuration for AI-built apps
Keep keys out of code, out of images and out of prompts. Separate configuration by environment, rotate on schedule, and know what to do the day a key leaks.Beginner7 min · 13 October 2026Postgres in production: the checklist
Where to run it, how to back it up, how to prove the backup works, how to connect to it, and what to watch once real users depend on it.Intermediate9 min · 13 October 2026Rollbacks that survive a schema migration
An image rollback re-points traffic to old code. It does not un-migrate your database. How to make releases you can actually undo.Advanced9 min · 13 October 2026An observability starter kit for a small team
The four signals worth watching, health and readiness checks that mean something, structured logs, your first three alerts and the runbooks behind them.Intermediate8 min · 13 October 2026What a small SaaS really costs on AWS
The line items that surprise people, how to estimate a bill before you provision, and how to keep it from drifting once you have.Intermediate8 min · 13 October 2026Plan your first customer-cloud deployment
Define the account, access model and operating responsibilities before bringing your SaaS into a customer’s infrastructure.Advanced4 min · 13 October 2026Design a preview environment that has an end date
Decide what to deploy, which data to use and what to remove when a review environment has done its job.Intermediate4 min · 13 October 2026
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