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What is Gleam on Zerops?

Zerops provides a fully managed Gleam runtime environment with the BEAM VM, enabling you to build type-safe, fault-tolerant applications with functional programming.
Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale. Learn more about Gleam →

Key Features

Type Safety

Strong static typing with type inference

BEAM VM

Runs on the Erlang VM for reliability

Fast Builds

Quick compilation and deployment

OTP Compatible

Use Erlang/OTP libraries and patterns

Supported Versions

  • Gleam 1.5 (Latest)
  • Gleam 1.4

Quick Example

project:
  name: my-gleam-app
services:
  - hostname: api
    type: gleam@1.5
    minContainers: 1
    buildFromGit: https://github.com/zeropsio/recipe-gleam@main
    enableSubdomainAccess: true

Common Use Cases

Build type-safe web APIs with Gleam.
zerops:
  - setup: api
    build:
      base: gleam@1.5
      buildCommands:
        - gleam build
      deployFiles:
        - build
    run:
      start: gleam run
Create fault-tolerant distributed applications.

Next Steps

Quickstart

Deploy your first Gleam app

Examples

View Gleam examples

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