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Gigalixir is a Heroku alternative for Elixir

Heroku works as a platform for deploying Elixir apps, but has some serious limitations.

Gigalixir is an interesting alternative that was tailored to provide the full Elixir experience in a very Heroku-like fashion including

  • a powerful CLI
  • configuration via env vars and
  • deployments via git push.

You can see it working right here!