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DeployEx
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DeployEx is a lightweight tool designed for managing deployments for Beam applications (Elixir, Gleam and Erlang) without relying on additional deployment tools
Ever seen tmux running in Phoenix LiveView? 🤯

One of DeployEx's coolest features: a built-in terminal that connects directly to your host. Check status, verify privileges, run diagnostics—all as the application user (not root). Perfect for testing and debugging 🐞
January 30, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Struggling to connect elixir containerized nodes ⛓️‍💥 in the cloud? Tired of libraries that add network complexity? DeployEx connects your nodes the easy way: no service discovery, no guessing. Nodes are either connected or they're not—and you'll see exactly which ones aren't.
January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
DeployEx 0.9.0 doesn't have a release date yet, but it's already packing one of the coolest features: you can upload a DeployEx image and hot-upgrade it. Consider sponsoring this project! 💙
January 30, 2026 at 11:52 AM
You deploy a new PR. It rolls out to all pods. Something breaks. Now you need to rollback, new PR → approvals → deployment time → meanwhile, you're losing customers. With DeployEx? Rollback in 2 clicks. Done ✅.
January 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all—DeployEx has just reached 200 stars on GitHub and 1 sponsor. This is an incredible milestone. Community is what makes this project possible. github.com/thiagoesteve...
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 PM
You need to start engineering your code and think carefully about dependencies. If you reach for a library/framework/shelf solution before understanding what you REALLY need, you may end up with a beautiful front house, but inside...
January 22, 2026 at 11:58 AM
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
With Observer Web and Phoenix LiveView, you get an out-of-the-box metric showing the number of socket connections—in other words, the number of users accessing your system. No code needed, just add Observer Web and watch (or better yet, observe 👀).
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
With DeployEx, your deployment has out of the box ObserverWeb, a tool to observe your process relationships, send messages, garbage collect, and much more. It makes debugging very easy to handle and, you don't need DeployEx to have it—you can have ObserverWeb in your app now.
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 AM
DeployEx now has a new feature 🔥 it can hot-upgrade itself 🔥 in three different ways! Let me show you in the video. This feature will be available in the next release, planned for 2026, but you can check it out and test it now in the GitHub repo. Let's spread the campaign #UnstoppableBeam
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
DeployEx 0.8.0 is released. You can now add or remove replicas, adjust environments, and modify configuration on the fly—all without restarting DeployEx or impacting any running applications.

🖥️ DeployEx (0.8.0)
repo: github.com/thiagoesteve...
changelog: github.com/thiagoesteve...
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM