You should ship a single tarball (target system built from a release) that unpacks with everything you need, including the Erlang runtime, and run it. There is

You should ship a single tarball (target system built from a release) that unpacks with everything you need, including the Erlang runtime, and run it. There is no need to install Erlang on the host and better to not use escripts unless it is a user facing cli tool.