johnhamelink

My Elixir Deployment Wishlist

Foreward

Based on my recent experience of deployment, I've become rather frustrated with the deployment tooling in Elixir. This document is the result of me thinking to myself, "I wish we had x...". This document isn't meant to dishearten anyone who has built tooling for elixir - thank you so much for what you've done. This is meant more as what I personally see as something that would help a lot of Erlang/Elixir newbies like myself to be able to get deploying quickly and efficiently.

1. Release files should be templates

It should be possible to add in custom configuration to the bootstrap scripts. This would allow plugins to be able to add extra steps to the startup / shutdown / upgrade procedure. One way to implement this would be to make all scripts which handle bootstrapping or controlling the machine [.eex][1] templates. This would allow other parts of the release system to inject new functionality where needed.

craigbeck

  query IntrospectionQuery {
    __schema {
      queryType { name }
      mutationType { name }
      subscriptionType { name }
      types {
        ...FullType
      }
      directives {

jpswade

Find the original here article here: Devops Best Practices

DevOps started out as "Agile Systems Administration". In 2008, at the Agile Conference in Toronto, Andrew Shafer posted an offer to moderate an ad hoc "Birds of a Feather" meeting to discuss the topic of "Agile Infrastructure". Only one person showed up to discuss the topic: Patrick Debois. Their discussions and sharing of ideas with others advanced the concept of "agile systems administration". Debois and Shafer formed an Agile Systems Administrator group on Google, with limited success. Patrick Debois did a presentation called "Infrastructure and Operations" addressing

jswny

Prelude

I. Preface and Motivation

This guide was written because I don't particularly enjoy deploying Phoenix (or Elixir for that matter) applications. It's not easy. Primarily, I don't have a lot of money to spend on a nice, fancy VPS so compiling my Phoenix apps on my VPS often isn't an option. For that, we have Distillery releases. However, that requires me to either have a separate server for staging to use as a build server, or to keep a particular version of Erlang installed on my VPS, neither of which sound like great options to me and they all have the possibilities of version mismatches with ERTS. In addition to all this, theres a whole lot of configuration which needs to be done to setup a Phoenix app for deployment, and it's hard to remember.

For that reason, I wanted to use Docker so that all of my deployments would be automated and reproducable. In addition, Docker would allow me to have reproducable builds for my releases. I could build my releases on any machine that I wanted in a contai