Now that we’ve established a viable workflow for building and running our application in Docker containers, it’s time to take our first pass at running those containers on Kubernetes!

One of the quickest ways to rapidly prototype and confirm that your new Docker image is viable is to stand it up in a Docker-Compose environment. I often skip this step nowadays but it’s still a very useful validation step, and is more generally applicable in open source projects where we can’t fully assume Kubernetes as a target.

As described in the introductory post, this article will briefly outline the installation of Distillery 2 as well as including a deeper philosophical and technical explanation of how I structure multi-stage Docker images for Elixir/Phoenix applications.

I’m kicking off a new blog series that focuses on the intersection of Elixir and Kubernetes. This is becoming a more and more popular deployment target for companies and developers who don’t find a comfortable fit with other options that make different trade-offs.