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Welcome to Distillery’s documentation!

Distillery is a tool for packaging Elixir applications for deployment using OTP releases. In a nutshell, Distillery produces an artifact, a tarball, which contains your application and everything needed to run it. This artifact also contains scripts which allow you to run the application in three different modes (console, foreground, and daemonized), as well as a variety of utility commands, such as remote_console which provides an easy way to connect an IEx session to your running application. Releases are more than just a way to package your application though, and are a core part of Erlang’s design, which we inherit in Elixir.

To begin, check out the Installation page.

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