In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel has a conversation about a few things they have been thinking about. First, they shout out to anyone who would love to chat about config change callbacks. Then they dive into deployment discussing the updates that have happened this year. They share their experiences with the changes and compare the Elixir release to Distillery. 

There are many options for deployment and they discuss some of the ones they have used. They consider services and do it yourself options. The panel shares lessons learned through their deployment experiences and give pro-tips for beginners and those new to Elixir. 

The next topic they discuss is hot code reload. Michael shares his fascination with this practice and explains what it is. The panel discusses the possibilities and use-cases for hot code reload. Hot code upgrade is also discussed. 

Panelists


Mark Ericksen




Michael Ries




Eric Oestrich


Sponsors


Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan




CacheFly


Links


grapevine 




Deploying with Docker 




https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/heroku.html 




https://www.heroku.com/ 




https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/ 




https://www.ansible.com/ 




https://gigalixir.com/ 




deploy.sh 




Running migrations 




release_tasks.ex 




Configuration and releases 




mix release 




observer_cli 




Erlang: The Movie 




Using Erlang Distribution to test hardware 




The Athens Affair 




ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma 




Richard Carlsson - The art of the live upgrade - 10 yrs of evolving a live system | Code BEAM SF 19 




https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix 




https://twitter.com/elixir_mix


Picks

Mark Ericksen:


Hot Rod  




Install Elixir using asdf 


Michael Ries:


https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1195524113617637376 




scenic sensor 


Eric Oestrich:


Elixir Wizards 

Twitter Mentions