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Mix release with NIF in a containser crashes … I can’t find why.
If I run the project locally (mix phx.serve) it works.
When I...
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I have a large number of images and also allow uploads. It seems mix release is geared toward storing everything in a CDN. Is there no wa...
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I’m using the standard Dockerfile generated by mix phx.gen.release --docker with a small change:
# Compile the release
ARG APP_VERSION
R...
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I have the following list of apps in my extra_applications field in mix.exs:
def application do
[
mod: {Core.Application, []...
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Are there any known working resources to package using nix and deploy it?
I’ve tried:
But the basic liveview(mix phx.new) uses heroico...
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I have a Phoenix application that is happily using runtime.exs to configure settings at runtime. The Phoenix app is deployed via a Docker...
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I haven’t been able to find a simple example for this. Let’s say we have a regular project with Phoenix that is deployed by building a mi...
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I had a question about using build_per_environment: false in my mix.exs… I have a simple app that doesn’t have any compile-time configura...
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Long story short, huge domain name, non erlang users. Want to shrink down the width of the prompt as it’s making it difficult for users t...
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I am releasing a small elixir app with mix release. Since I only need the release to run on a linux machine, I do not need any .bat scrip...
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I’ve spent some time understanding how to do hot code reloading with releases built using mix release, and here I’d like to detail the st...
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I used mix release for deployment. After building a new version with mix release , I started the system as a daemon with IEx attached (da...
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Mix release with NIF in a containser crashes … I can’t find why.
If I run the project locally (mix phx.serve) it works.
When I...
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I have a large number of images and also allow uploads. It seems mix release is geared toward storing everything in a CDN. Is there no wa...
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I made an Elixir app with mix release that runs on Windows as a service.
Because of a erlsrv bug (Windows service fails to start on OS (...
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I am creating a simple Phoenix umbrella application to run on a client’s Windows 11 machine and my objective is to have somet...
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This post is intended to be a guide for others, I was running a remote debugger for the first time and appreciate feedback on how I could...
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Hello everyone!
I was discussing with a colleague at work today about the possible use cases that would require using a mix release and ...
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Im receiving this error when try to deploy to digital ocean as production(Please don’t ask to use gigalixir / fly as this is client requi...
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Are there any known working resources to package using nix and deploy it?
I’ve tried:
But the basic liveview(mix phx.new) uses heroico...
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I’m trying to build a Phoenix app using Docker, to later deploy it to dedicated servers
I followed this tutorial but used centos:7 as a ...
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I have a small web application here – Lexin Mobi (https://lexin.mobi, GitHub - cr0t/lexin: Swedish Dictionary App · GitHub) – which I dep...
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After generating a Dockerfile with mix release, and build it with docker build, I am unable to start elixir in the container:
=INFO RE...
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Background
I have an umbrella project with several apps inside. I want to create a special release that will have additional files inside...
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I am a bit confused with the release process with mix.
I want to deploy my release on a server with erlang installed, but when I...
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The Mix Release documentation states the following with regards to rpc commands:
Another way to run commands is with rpc , which will c...
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So, I have an elixir application that originally came bundled with its own ERTS (in a release) to be run on a specific server.
The origi...
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I have an Elixir 1.15.7 application. At first, it was intended to be installed only on Windows. Therefore I configured mix.iex with ...
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mix release copies /rel/overlays/bin files
mix release foo_app doesn’t copy /rel/overlays/bin files
</tl;dr>
Ac...
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I am using elixir 1.9 with erlang 22.0 and I am using the command mix release. However when I try to run my app with _build/de...
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When one is within the Mix context it’s possible to run
$ mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs
Which will evaluate code like the followi...
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Is it possible to somehow limit the memory usage of the Erlang virtual machine? I’m on a shared server and I don’t have root access....
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I’m following these two tutorials:
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/deploying-elixir-to-aws-elastic-beanstalk-with-docker
And I can create ...
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Am trying to deploy a phoenix app using mix releases on gigalixir. I was following these instructions in their docs but when I reach thi...
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Hello! I run a cloud company, we want to build the best possible Phoenix deployment experience. The goal is a CLI based launch command th...
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Hi all! I haven’t worked with Elixir since v1.7. I was just checking out the new mix release functionality and I was thinking about how I...
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Hello I’am trying to do a mix release with elixir version Elixir 1.10.2 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 22).
The Application compiles normally...
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Good afternoon folks
I’ve been playing around with LiveView for a few days now and I have to admit it’s changing my approach to many use...
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Distillery has Boot Hooks, which can be utilized to e.g. run ecto migration scripts before application startup during deployment.
I am b...
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I’ve done this a lot when using distillery - for example, bundling a script which will execute an ecto.migration task.
Here’s an examp...
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I’m quite new to Elixir (and programming in general), so apologies if the fault turns out to be a simple one, and one of my doing:
tl:dr...
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Ok, I’ve an app that I intend to use releases on future, so I decided to create a runtime.exs, that means: generic configuration file tha...
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erlang 22.0.7
elixir 1.9.1
I am trying to test release.
I can success with build. but, It can not start with some error messages.
{"i...
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Hello,
We are working in a pretty big Elixir application (at the moment of writing, 1 minute of compilation in an i5 processor and ~930...
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