Distillery—The Elixir Release Manager
Distillery is an Elixir package that makes most release tasks easy. In particular, it can take the complexity that is the source of your project, along with its dependencies, and reduce it down to a single deployable file.
Imagine you were managing the deployment of hundreds of thousands of lines of code into running telephone switches, while maintaining all the ongoing connections, providing a full audit trail, and maintaining contractual uptime guarantees. This is clearly complex. Very complex. And this is the task the Erlang folks faced, so they created tools that help.
Distillery is a layer of abstraction on top of this complexity. Normally it manages to hide it, but sometimes the lower levels leak out ...
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