koen_vb
Simple Phoenix deployment for beginners?
Hi, I was looking for a pointer of how I could most easily start with phoenix regarding deploying it to something like linode or google cloud.
Its a side project which would use some websockets and liveview but I have no experience with docker or kubernetes, was just looking for a quite straightforward way of deploying an elixir application.
So just something where I do not have too much things to do, no CI is required or test runners, just copy to my server and start it 
Thanks!
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mindok
The render.com deployment guide is pretty good, and works very nicely for deploying to render.com too!!
Guide is here:
I deploy my charting library sample code and package website more or less using that recipe. Code is here: GitHub - mindok/contex-samples: Sample web application demonstrating contex features · GitHub.
bin folder contains the release script.
The sample app uses web sockets to support liveview pages.
If you don’t need a database, render.com is about $7/month. It’s a little more complex and a few more $/s a month if you need a database or file storage, but still pretty easy and the guides are really good - I have another database-backed app deployed there.
axelson
If you want something easy and simple then I think you’d definitely want to look at http://heroku.com/ or gigalixir (as previously mentioned). They both have free tiers which is great for a side project.
I think you’d want to stay away from docker and kubernetes if you’re just getting started.
thiagomajesk
Been there done that (recently). My two cents:
Go with mix releases and just follow the Phoenix docs (it doesn’t get easier than that).
My experience was that the number of available blog posts and tutorials online made me a little bit confused about what was the “recommended way” to deploy whether the reality of how to do it is way simpler 
After you feel comfortable with the basics steps I’ll advise looking into docker or configuring a deployment pipeline.
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wallyfoo
I found this tutorial for deploying phoenix with dokku to be incredibly helpful. One of the downsides with dokku is that it doesn’t do hot code updating, but for a simple project, that’s not a deep concern.
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