Elixir deployment can be complex, but there’s no reason why you cannot deploy it in a simple fashion similar to Java or Ruby.

You don’t have to use hot code reloading, and if you don’t have a clear reason why it would be beneficial to your business I would suggest you probably should not

The guides section here https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/home.html is about as close as you’re going to get at the moment.

For videos https://alchemist.camp/episodes has a number on deployment.

Also check out the threads here on the forum - loads tagged deployment

I’m pretty sure Programming Elixir and Elixir in Action also cover deploying an Elixir app, but IIRC they don’t go too deep into the topic. Adopting Elixir goes more into detail I think:

There was also this screencast that may be of help:

Finally.. you may want to add your thoughts in this thread:

iirc it doesn’t go into terrible detail, it’s more high level like red/green deployment and the tools to use etc. - which is cool to share but mostly what turns out to be problematic are the nitty gritty details (at least that’s what it was mostly for me) - a book isn’t necessary the best source there as these details change and are also application dependent.

https://www.shanesveller.com/blog/2018/10/28/kubernetes-native-phoenix-apps-part-1/

If kubernetes is “overkill”, you can go up to the second part in the series and stop there.