[bongobingo1]

> All of a sudden I'm not just supporting an app, I'm supporting an entire runtime on top of Linux. I'd much rather deal with a single binary like e.g. go or rust provide, and I'd much rather not deal with Erlang processes and whatnot

(Not trying to be argumentative.)

We have been quite ok just deploying our elixir stuff as containers per anything else (seems this is even common for go services - even though just the binary is enough theoretically). Connecting a cluster of beam-containers is not really any different to a cluster of go-containers, etc. Possibly when you last used Phoenix it didn't have built in releases (portable, compiled packaged dir + binary) - and a Dockerfile generator.

I likely lack the perspective you have, but I think you can discard a lot of the beams "classical" deployment story for something that's no different to Rails/Go/etc and I don't think you lose anything besides hot-code-upgrades which I think aren't really that needed in todays multi-node infrastructure. A container going down isn't any different to a raw beam node going down so its much-for-muchness.