Hey, I've went through the "trouble" of using continuous deployment with elixir and distillery.

Since the project I'm working on is open source, you can see how I've done it. It's still far from perfect but maybe it could be a place to start.

Elixir app is on https://github.com/hackerexperience/helix. You'd probably be interested on `lib/release.ex` and `rel/`.

For the ci, our infrastructure playbooks are at https://github.com/hackerexperience/infrastructure, and you probably want to look at `roles/{helix, erlang, elixir}`.

Hit me up if you have questions our would like to discuss further. Email is on profile.

Btw, here's a great presentation about the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H686MDn4Lo8

Thanks for this, I'll take a look and definitely hit you up if I have questions.

Dockyard (where Chris McCord works) is currently hiring staff to improve Elixir deployment, so hopefully we will see something that addresses this issue soon enough: https://dockyard.com/press/releases/2017/09/08/dockyard-hiri...

Setup deployment takes some time so I prepared blog post and an example Phoenix app how to do it with edeliver, distillery and Ansible playbooks http://blog.lunarlogic.io/phoenix-app-deployment-with-ansibl...

We spent some time with friend doing research and trying to connect all pieces to make it work.

Thanks for the link, but the issue is deploying non-phoenix apps. There are tons of documentation (well relatively tons) on Phoenix app and deployment but console apps in Elixir have very little around that I have found.

FWIW, deploying a non-Phoenix app with distillery is exactly the same as deploying a Phoenix app.

Thanks, I wasn't sure if that was the case.