uranther
I have been thinking about setting up continuous delivery and I wonder:
Does running Elixir/OTP within a Docker container put you at a major disadvantage?
Will the application be able to use all the CPU cores and in general benefit from OTP’s design?
Maybe @jeffweiss can shed some light on the topic for us? 
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mkunikow
I found only that there could be problem when you want connect with Erlang Vm with another Erlang VM on different machine.
https://github.com/Random-Liu/Erlang-In-Docker
uranther
Thanks for the link! Yes, networking is another friction point and a common problem I have with Docker in general.
andre1sk
In a few years Docker will be as good as Solaris zones
(or not)
NobbZ
A common problem I’ve read about is BEAMs hot-code-swap capabilities, which you seem to give up when using docker.
pragmaticivan
Check this out, that’s the closest setup I’m using in production, but you kinda give up about code-swap, but at least you have a good envelope (deploy way) for you infrastructure.
https://medium.com/@rubas/deploy-your-elixir-app-with-a-minimal-docker-container-using-alpine-linux-and-exrm-b4e166f1802#.e32lbqhxo
uranther
It seems like edeliver is the way to go; Plataformatec recently published a blog post about it and it looks easy to setup. It seems to me, unless you already have a Capistrano/Jenkins or Docker deployment pipeline setup, then it will be easier just to use edeliver.
Perhaps we can incorporate some of this information back into our deployment wiki thread.
freiden
How do you manage files permissions between containers and development environment?
mkunikow
uranther
Found this in my email this morning:
Dockerizing Elixir and Phoenix Applications
Learn how to make your Elixir workflow more consistent and convenient with Docker and Docker Compose
freiden
Thanks guys I’ll read them.