Summary of Coordinating Deployments

In this chapter, we addressed deployment, the first step toward moving our development application into production. It was a long process with several steps.

Deployment using Mix

First, we looked at an overly simplified approach to deployment with nothing but a few Mix tasks. We pushed that solution further to include a build server and worked in some configurations. Then, we added run_erl to direct standard out to a file with rotating logs. Finally, we looked at the heart, which provides heartbeat support. We soon learned that Mix couldn’t take us as far as we wanted to go.