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Re:Elixir v1.7 released by brightball on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:39PM (#17614478)
Distillery is pretty much “the way” right now and the core team hired the guy that built it to flesh out the long term built in solution. He’s explained the various moving parts but the short version is that he’s aiming for portable binary style deployment.
Re:Elixir v1.7 released by angersock on Sunday July 29, 2018 @11:47AM (#17638687)
Except, it's really not. Boring "MIX_ENV=production mix phx.server" works just as well, and you can trivially add the stuff to make logging into a node easier.

Everybody wants this tooling for deploying appliances when frankly we are almost all just doing boring webshit.