# What are you cooking?

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**Created:** [July 9, 2026, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/what-are-you-cooking/9048 "2026-07-09T05:48:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![treagod](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/treagod/32/2626_2.png) [@treagod](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/treagod)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/what-are-you-cooking/9048/18 "2026-07-18T13:20:24Z")

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I’m currently working on [Meridian](https://meridian-deploy.dev/), a deployment tool similar to Kamal, but built around rootless Podman instead of Docker.

You don’t necessarily need a container registry either, since Meridian can also transfer and deploy images directly over SSH.

It uses kamal-proxy and supports blue-green deployments. It can also build and serve fingerprinted static assets from a separate subdomain as part of the deployment, so you don’t need a CDN.

I’m already using Meridian for some of my own projects. There is no 0.1.0 release yet, even though some text might read like there is a release, but I’m getting closer.

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