Hi there,
I’m in the process of deploying a Phoenix app to a EU host (UpCloud specifically), where the instances provided are mostly raw VMs with an init script (you can manage the VMs with Terraform & Ansible later if needed).
I am interested to hear about people who went that road recently:
- building releases locally & pushing them via SSH, to start (I’m working locally on Mac OS)
- picking a server (nginx/caddie versus raw cowboy/bandit with SSL?)
- later : building releases on the code hosting (e.g. GitHub) & do CD from there
- potentially, the init scripts that you may have used
- no docker necessarily for now, but that may come later
What are your preferred resources, scripts & snippets to achieve that?
I went through the forum but so far found mostly outdated advice.
Thanks!






















