Building a container and building a release are quite similar in many respects, so if all you want to do to compile your Elixir app during a container build, a

Building a container and building a release are quite similar in many respects, so if all you want to do to compile your Elixir app during a container build, a release might not give you very much. An Erlang/Elixir release has some goodies that you might be interested in, so I'd read up on those goodies to see if they are attractive to you.