This Dockerfile provides a full installation of Erlang and Elixir on Alpine, intended for running releases, so it has no build tools installed. The Erlang installation is provided so one can avoid cross-compiling releases. The caveat of course is if one has NIFs which require a native compilation toolchain, but that is left as an exercise for the reader.
NOTE: This image sets up a default user, with home set to /opt/app and owned by that user. The working directory
is also set to $HOME. It is highly recommended that you add a USER default instruction to the end of your
Dockerfile so that your app runs in a non-elevated context.
To boot straight to a prompt in the image:
$ docker run --rm -it --user=root bitwalker/alpine-elixir iex
Erlang/OTP 21 [erts-10.0] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Interactive Elixir (1.7.4) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)>
Extending for your own application:
FROM bitwalker/alpine-elixir:1.7.4
# Set exposed ports
EXPOSE 5000
ENV PORT=5000
ENV MIX_ENV=prod
COPY yourapp.tar.gz ./
RUN tar -xzvf yourapp.tar.gz
USER default
CMD ./bin/yourapp foregroundMIT