Quick and dirty, this is my recipe for local development of elixir phoenix apps using docker and docker-compose.
3 important files:
- Dockerfile
- docker-compose.yml
- dev.exs
Dockerfile
FROM bitwalker/alpine-elixir-phoenix:latest
# Cache elixir deps
ADD mix.exs mix.lock ./
RUN mix do deps.get, deps.compile
# Same with npm deps
ADD assets/package.json assets/
RUN cd assets && npm install
CMD ["mix", "phx.server"]
docker-compose.yml
version: '3.7'
services:
web:
build: '.'
ports:
- "4000:4000"
volumes:
- /opt/app/assets/node_modules
- /opt/app/deps
- .:/opt/app
depends_on:
- db
environment:
MIX_ENV: 'dev'
db:
image: postgres:alpine
ports:
- 5432:5432
here we mount 3 volumes, the first two hold the deps so we don't recompile elixir deps or install npm packages every time we build or run the service. The last volume is our app itself, this way, changes reflect immediately without rebuilding or restarting the service.
dev.exs
config :yourapp, Yourapp.Repo,
username: "postgres",
password: "postgres",
database: "yourapp_dev",
hostname: "db",
show_sensitive_data_on_connection_error: true,
pool_size: 10
Just make sure to override the hostname with db
and use the default user and password for postgres.
after this you can do docker-compose build
and the docker-compose up
and head to http://localhost:4000 in your browser.
if you want to enter to the container that is running:
docker container ls -a
Find the one with the _web suffix, mine is myapp_web
A one liner to enter to it would be something like this:
docker exec -it $(docker ps | grep 'myapp_web' | awk '{print $1}') /bin/bash
Top comments (2)
Thanks! I am new to running Phoenix in Docker. My main goal is to start this project with the ability to quickly deploy to AWS ECS when it's ready to go to production. I have found a few other articles, but most of them neglect the liveloading of code.
Using Docker neglects the liveloading of code, indeed. For that you better use edeliver.