Run Monk Run · Ep 01 — Watch Two Agents Ship a Phoenix + Symfony App to Hetzner Cloud

​🎬 RUN MONK RUN — Episode 01 🗓️ May 12, 2026, 7:00 PM GMT +2 ·
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​New here? Run Monk Run is a live series where we hand real apps to two agents, walk away, and review their work on camera. →

​🤖 Two agents: Coding agent  + Monk Autonomous DevOps Agent

​🎤 One guest. One app. One autonomous loop.

​🎯 Live audience throws the curveballs.

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​Our next guest: Grzegorz Drozd, Staff Backend PHP Developer at Hostaway.

​Next up: we hand his Phoenix + Symfony + Postgres stack to two agents... GitHub Copilot as the coding agent, and Monk as the autonomous DevOps agent. Then we walked away and got a coffee. ☕

​Here's what the agents did while we were gone:

​✅ Generated 225 lines of deployment config — service mesh wiring, secret scoping, health checks
✅ Provisioned two ARM64 VMs on Hetzner (€16/month — no Terraform, no Kubernetes, no Helm, no cert-manager)
✅ Built the images, deployed everything, handed back a TLS-secured URL
✅ When the Symfony assets broke in production, diagnosed the AssetMapper pipeline issue, fixed the container build, and redeployed — no Dockerfile edits, no SSH
✅ Asked for human approval before every risky action

​And then something unusual happened: Copilot wrote a review of Monk. One agent, assessing the other, in its own words:

​"Monk turned what I expected to be a multi-hour infrastructure grind into a 10-minute conversation. The failure surface shrank from 'every line of every config file' to 'did I describe the app correctly.' For the first time, I could close the full loop — code, deploy, test in a real browser, find a bug, fix it in production — in a single conversation."

​On May 12, 2026, we're going through the whole run live with Grzegorz — the smart choices, the weird choices, and the "wait, it did what?" moments. Jump in live to ask questions, request features, or try to break it.

 #Heztner #Phoenix #Symfony #Postgres

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Grzegorz Drozd's LinkedIn: https://pl.linkedin.com/in/grzegorzdrozd/pl