If you look at the features listed by Kubernetes (K8s) and compare it to languages that run on the Erlang VM, such as Erlang and Elixir, the impression is that they share many keywords. This sharing often leads to confusion. Do they provide distinct behaviors? Do they overlap? For instance, is there any purpose to Elixir’s fault tolerance if Kubernetes also provides self-healing?

We’ve been talking about deploy and releases with Elixir lately, like how to run migrations on top of a release or how to deal with environment variables. Now it’s time to discover another tool that can help us release our Elixir application. After practicing deploy and tracing through nodes with Exrm, we got more comfortable … »

It’s very common (and highly recommended) that application keeps its configuration values separated from its version control. A way of doing this is by using ENV vars (environment variables). They’re being used for improvements mostly on maintainability. The 12-factor app manifesto explains it on its Configuration section: The twelve-factor app stores config in environment variables … »

Exrm is a great tool for building releases for Elixir applications so you can deploy them on the web and even in an embedded hardware. We have been using Exrm here at Plataformatec. It is the chosen tool for deploying our projects and the contributors are doing a great job maintaining and developing new features. … »

The way of deliver your product code to your customer is commonly called “deployment”. It is an important matter because it will impact in how fast your product will respond to changes and the quality of each change. Depending on which deployment decision you take, it will impact your team and how you use your … »