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Re:Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes by Touche on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:34PM (#15038260)
"Hard" is relative, of course. For small teams without a release engineer, options like Heroku, now, etc. are much easier than what you are suggesting.
Re:Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes by bostonvaulter2 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:53PM (#15042857)
Deploying to Heroku is relatively easy, the only downside is you lose access to clustering (plus hot code upgrades but most people don't use that anyway). There's great documentation available for heroku as well:

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/heroku.html