Adopting Elixir

Deploying with Mix

The emergence of deployment tools within git and Elixir’s basic tooling makes it pretty simple to stand up a dead-simple deployment strategy for a single machine. The easiest way to run an Elixir application in production is by fetching or pushing the source code to your servers and calling:

$ MIX_ENV=prod mix run --no-halt

mix run will compile and start the current application and all of its dependencies. --no-halt guarantees Elixir won’t terminate just after the application is booted. Phoenix is similar. Instead of mix run --no-halt, you will execute mix phx.server, still setting the Mix environment to “prod”.

MIX_ENV=prod ensures your application is running in the production environment with the relevant ...