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Mastering Elixir

By : André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha
Book Image

Mastering Elixir

By: André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha

Overview of this book

Running concurrent, fault-tolerant applications that scale is a very demanding responsibility. After learning the abstractions that Elixir gives us, developers are able to build such applications with inconceivable low effort. There is a big gap between playing around with Elixir and running it in production, serving live requests. This book will help you fll this gap by going into detail on several aspects of how Elixir works and showing concrete examples of how to apply the concepts learned to a fully ?edged application. In this book, you will learn how to build a rock-solid application, beginning by using Mix to create a new project. Then you will learn how the use of Erlang's OTP, along with the Elixir abstractions that run on top of it (such as GenServer and GenStage), that allow you to build applications that are easy to parallelize and distribute. You will also master supervisors (and supervision trees), and comprehend how they are the basis for building fault-tolerant applications. Then you will use Phoenix to create a web interface for your application. Upon fnishing implementation, you will learn how to take your application to the cloud, using Kubernetes to automatically deploy, scale, and manage it. Last, but not least, you will keep your peace of mind by learning how to thoroughly test and then monitor your application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Demand-Driven Processing
Index

Continuous deployment with Travis CI


Instead of relying on the previous kubectl commands and Kubernetes configuration files to update our application every time, we want to automate this process. Doing it manually is tedious, error prone, and not deterministic.

To automate this process, we will use Travis CI (https://travis-ci.org/), a continuous-integration service that is free for open source projects. To use it, we need to have our source code living in a GitHub repository (https://github.com/) and give Travis CI access to our GitHub project. Whenever a new change reaches the code repository, Travis CI detects it and tries to build the project, according to a recipe file that also belongs to the project source code (.travis.yml).

 

Note

After pushing your code to GitHub, add the Travis CI GitHub app in the code repository. You now need to sign in to Travis CI with your GitHub credentials and activate the Travis CI automatic builds for the repository. You can find more information at https...