Simple Phoenix deployment for beginners?

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.

Thanks, never seen render, so nice suggestion.
Then a second question was:

Should I use mix/distillery/elixir releases?

(Note, I am indeed just looking for some easy deployment, just as a start to get things going)

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.

I wrote some articles about basic Phoenix Deployment (render, Edeliver, distillery) recently that may help you get started:

https://phxroad.com/skills/devops.

This one helped me a lot: https://medium.com/@j.schlacher_32979/release-a-phoenix-application-with-docker-and-postgres-28c6ae8c7184

I posted my experience deploying to a linode instance with ansible in this thread

I started by just installing all my dependencies on a 5$ linode and got everything working!
Only thing was that when I apt-get install esl-erlang it installed a whole bunch of other packages like xserver etc which was a bit strange to me?

Thanks a lot!

Because erlang has :observer, which is built on wxWidgets, a GUI framework built on X.

This means you can ssh -X user@server and you can startup a beam node and start observer to have it appear on your local machine.

Although running a local node connected remotely (like over an ssh tunnel) would be faster. ^.^

I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned gigalixir so far.

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.