Harsh Balyan

Senior software engineer @ Scripbox

Senior Software Engineer at Scripbox. Stumbled and happily stuck with Elixir since 2017. Working on a communications and marketing platform.

Past Activities

Vasu Adari / Harsh Balyan
Code BEAM STO V

11 Sep 2020
14.35 - 15.15

Deploying Elixir on Docker

TALK LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

Deploying Elixir application has always had its complexities. But with the 'releases' support introduced in Elixir v1.9, it has become seamless. Since everybody likes containerising their apps, we'll also try to containerise our releases and deploy on to our most loved cloud service(AWS).

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Deploy

Elixir

(on) Docker

OBJECTIVES

How to Dockerise an Elixir application
Using Docker multi-stage builds to reduce the final image size
How to create Elixir releases using `Distillery`
How to create Elixir releases using `mix release` introduced in v1.9
How to deploy with zero-downtime on vanilla AWS EC2 instances

TARGET AUDIENCE

People interested in optimising Elixir application deployments.

#Scalability & reliability

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