I took some inspiration from Kamal, e.g. the imperative model but kamal is more a deployment tool.

In addition to deployments, uncloud handles clustering - connects machines and containers together. Service containers can discover other services via internal DNS and communicate directly over the secure overlay network without opening any ports on the hosts.

As far as I know kamal doesn’t provide an easy way for services to communicate across machines.

Services can also be scaled to multiple replicas across machines.