Deploy with single file using distillery?

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Background

I have an OTP Application that I now need to deploy. To achieve this, I am using distillery. My objective is to pass a self-sufficient file to the PROD machine that contains everything and doesn’t need to be extracted.

The usual route

Most people using distillery will know the usual route:

  1. Run MIX_ENV=prod mix release
  2. Copy the tarball in build/prod/rel/<name>/releases/<version>/<name>.tar.gz to the deploy server
  3. Extract the tarbal
  4. Run the code.

Objective

My objective is to eliminate step 3. I don’t want to extract anything, I just want to copy the release and run it, like a sudo executable.

–executable

According to the documentation (https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/Mix.Tasks.Release.html) one can also run MIX_ENV=prod mix release --executable or MIX_ENV=prod mix release --transient. This will create a pseudo executable file that doesn’t need to be extracted.

Question

However, after running the MIX_ENV=prod mix release --executable command, I usually search the file build/prod/rel/<name>/releases/<version>/<name>.run. In theory this should be the file I need to copy into my deploy server but I can’t find it anywhere.

  • Which file do I need to copy into the deploy server and where is it?
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