Using a Raspberry Pi to run your Phoenix App

Elixir is a great and performant language. This makes a device with 4 cores and 1gb of RAM a pretty decent server. But what is the best way to deploy to a Raspberry PI? I’ll look into different ways of doing it. Going from the manual setup and compile Elixir. Use a service like Resin.IO and Docker. Adding continuous integration and  automatic deployments with SemaphoreCI.

Finally I’ll show a different approach using automatic deployments using exrm. 

In all these approaches there are difficulties that arise so for each of them I'll take a look at what can go wrong and give a small guide of how to do it. 

Then I'll compare all of the methods of deployment, difficulties and the performance.

Talk objectives:

- Compare different deployment approaches to deploy a Phoenix application to a Raspberry Pi.

Target audience:

- Beginner to Intermediate Developers curious about Elixir and Raspberry Pi.

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About Ricardo

Ruby on Rails developer working at Nearsoft that loves programming and agile methodologies. Former consultant developer at ThoughtWorks, cofounder of Piñata Software a Web Development Agency based in Chihuahua, Mexico.

GitHub: r-icarus

Twitter: @r_icarus

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