newton-peixoto
Hello everyone I have two questions about running elixir inside docker. First of all, I ran iex on my host machine and it says that there is 8 cores available
but when I run docker run -it elixir iex
it says only 4 is available is that right? is it possible to use all 8 cores inside docker? The last question is about running :observer.start inside the container I get
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al2o3cr
The number of CPUs exposed inside a Docker container is configurable:
As for starting observer, the error is because the container doesn’t have the necessary libraries (
wxWidgetsand dependencies). Even if you get those installed, seeing the window will require some additional plumbing.An alternative that might be easier would be to connect a remote IEx session from your local machine to the BEAM inside the container; this previous discussion covers some of the details and has a good writeup at the very end of what you’ll need to do.
newton-peixoto
Thank you! Helped a lot