Deploying program on erlang runtime 21

[Joe Love]

On 5/30/2019 6:12 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>> On 30/05/2019 20:48, Joe Love wrote:
>>>> On May 30, 2019, at 7:50 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <dch at skunkwerks.at> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2019, at 20:31, Joe Love wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I’ve been trying to wrap my head around creating my Elixir-based
>>>>> projects on my client workstations (which are not freebsd) and
>>>>> deploying them to a FreeBSD server using the erlang-runtime-21 package.
> Hi Joe
>
> https://github.com/skunkwerks/hello/ contains about 80% of a blog post in the
> README, it's a minimal phoenix project with the build goop to produce a native
> FreeBSD package. This, and pkg-repo behind a webserver allows you to
> deploy only with pkg.
>
> I stripped out all the (IMO) messy bash scripts, and the rc.d script does the
> minimum needed. I assume in most cases you'll want to use distributed
> erlang and you either pass that in with erl_flags or in vm.args as appropriate.
>
> It's possible to add extra stuff in the manifest to start or stop your app
> directly, but I prefer to do that via ansible.
>   
> Let me know if anything's not clear. I hope it's useful for you, and PRs are
> welcome for any improvements.
>
> A+
> Dave


Thanks Dave.  I'll have to get some time to get through what you've got 
built here and understand it.


-Joe