DEdepr·May 20, 2020
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7 sourcesHave you tried edeliver? it make use of distillery and I find it easy to deploy with, I guess it all boils down to your server architecture but you should give it a try someday.
https://github.com/edeliver/edeliver
In Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl HewittA non-autoscaling deployment is quite easy to accomplish. Build releases with Distillery[1], and deploy them with Edeliver[2]. You get zero-downtime upgrades and rollbacks for free, as well as nearly automatic server clustering. I gave a talk about this last year in New York[3].
A deployment that can autoscale is harder to accomplish, but still not impossible. AFAICT, most people doing this are building releases with Distillery, wrapping those releases in a Docker image, then using the deployment and orchestration tools of their choice. Monica Hirst gave a talk about doing this with AWS CodeDeploy last year at Empire City Elixir as well[4].
[1] https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery
[2] https://github.com/boldpoker/edeliver
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H686MDn4Lo8
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRspOj_sRgo
In Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machineYou might want to look into edeliver https://github.com/boldpoker/edeliver
In Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machineEdeliver – Deployment for Elixir and Erlang
2 points · Open discussionDeployment for Elixir and Erlang
1 points · Open discussionThis doesn't answer all of your questions, but it was the fastest way I found to get an Elixir app into production:
https://github.com/boldpoker/edeliver
It handles all the basic things I needed to get an app up and running, and supports hot-code upgrades. It supports multi-host deployments, but I think if you want auto-scaling you'll need to do some more work.
One thing to be aware of is that if you're deploying any NIFs or any native-compiled code, not BEAM, then you can't deploy directly from Mac to Linux servers, you'll need to use VMware or VirtualBox or something to actually do the builds. This includes any packages you use which are using natively-implemented code, which I'm pretty sure includes packages that do password hashing and such.
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