Elixir Deployment Tools Update – February 2018

Conform and distillery have been the saving grace of deploying reproducible builds.

The disjointedness of how configuration worked between dev and prod though bugged me to the point that I try to only use libraries that don’t solely rely on config.exs for config and take configuration as an argument. I generally write functions around their functions to pull from ENV variables.

It’s a bit of ceremony but it feels better.

There are still a lot of libraries that pull configuration “magically” from Application in the middle of a function and don’t expose a way other than config.exs to change them though. This makes me sad.

Edit: I forgot to say thanks for all the awesome work bitwalker!