I'm looking for a book on Phoenix hosting/deployment

[roshan]

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a book on Phoenix server hosting / deployment like the following books for Rails,

Docker for Rails Developers

or

Reliably Deploying Rails Applications

Phoenix is not that young. I expected at least one dedicated book and one dedicated video course on this topic. And as Phoenix also differs from Rails/Django/Laravel in it’s fault-tollerance and hot reload stuff etc, its deployment must be complicated and it should have more learning material.

thank you!

[sanswork]

The guides section here https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/home.html is about as close as you’re going to get at the moment.

For videos https://alchemist.camp/episodes has a number on deployment.

[AstonJ]

Also check out the threads here on the forum - loads tagged deployment

I’m pretty sure Programming Elixir and Elixir in Action also cover deploying an Elixir app, but IIRC they don’t go too deep into the topic. Adopting Elixir goes more into detail I think:

Adopting Elixir (Pragprog)

[image] by Ben Marx, José Valim, Bruce Tate Bring Elixir into your company, with real-life strategies from the people who built Elixir and use it successfully at scale. See how Ben Marx and Bleacher Report maintain one of the highest-traffic Elixir applications by selling the concept to management and delivering on that promise. Find out how Bruce Tate and icanmakeitbetter hire and train Elixir engineers, and the techniques they’ve employed to design and ensure code consistency since Elixir’…

There was also this screencast that may be of help:

Deploying with Gigalixir

I made an episode about deploying with Gigalixir. https://elixircasts.io/deploying-with-gigalixir

Finally… you may want to add your thoughts in this thread:

Your ideas for Elixir book authors and content creators

Inspired by @jeramyRR’s post, if you had the ear of a book author or publisher, or someone who might be thinking about creating other educational content, what would you tell them? Several authors and content creators that you know of (and one or two you might not!) frequent the forum - this could be your chance to get your requests in

[lpil]

@roshan

And as Phoenix also differs from Rails/Django/Laravel in it’s fault-tollerance and hot reload stuff etc, its deployment must be complicated

Elixir deployment can be complex, but there’s no reason why you cannot deploy it in a simple fashion similar to Java or Ruby.

You don’t have to use hot code reloading, and if you don’t have a clear reason why it would be beneficial to your business I would suggest you probably should not

[PragTob]

@AstonJ

Adopting Elixir goes more into detail I think

iirc it doesn’t go into terrible detail, it’s more high level like red/green deployment and the tools to use etc. - which is cool to share but mostly what turns out to be problematic are the nitty gritty details (at least that’s what it was mostly for me) - a book isn’t necessary the best source there as these details change and are also application dependent.

[roshan]

@PragTob

book isn’t necessary the best source there as these details change and are also application dependent.

That shouldn’t be a problem. I follow a Leanpub book about Elm + Phoenix at Github which is updated constantly. Not many people use this combination (Elm + Phoenix) but he is still updating is regularly, but every web developer needs to learn some level of deployment, so many will buy this book, and the author will be happy to update it time by time.

[roshan]

…updating it…

[maz]

https://www.shanesveller.com/blog/2018/10/28/kubernetes-native-phoenix-apps-part-1/

If kubernetes is “overkill”, you can go up to the second part in the series and stop there.