mcode10
Do I need Git in order to use edeliver?
I am trying to deploy a Phoenix application to a VPS using edeliver with a relx.config. However, I am not using Git. Instead I am using fossil (fossil-scm.org). In the README for edeliver (in the install section), it states that git is at least required on the build server, which I can get around by building on localhost, which is the same system/architecture as the VPS (Arch Linux, x86_64).
Does edeliver use Git to deploy the finished release to production?
If edeliver does require Git, what other options do I have? It seemed for automated deployment most other tools ultimately rely on edeliver or edeliver and Distillery and the Distillery repository on GitHub clearly says it is deprecated and most of the functionality is now a part of mix releases.
Could I simply create a mix release and copy and paste the release to production? I do not require hot code reloading or similar features.
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LostKobrakai
Make sure you understand the requirements for being able to do so:
https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Release.html#module-requirements
RudManusachi
Hey, @mcode10
welcome to our community ![]()
Could I simply create a mix release and copy and paste the release to production?
Yes, you definitely can. Once you build release with mix release (don’t forget to run it with MIX_ENV=prod env var) you’ll get the built release in ./_build/prod just deliver it somehow to your VPS and run there with _build/prod/rel/app_name/bin/app_name start
More about mix release — Mix v1.15.7







