polypush135
I’m trying to stand up a very basic example of distributed elixir using docker and epmd.
I chose to use libcluster and followed the readme with the example of the two nodes a@127.0.0.1 and b@127.0.0.1
Heres the app in github here https://github.com/joshchernoff/cluster_example
In short, everything works besides libcluster.
I can manually connect the nodes via Node.connect and list the nodes by hand but when running libcluster I get
Any ideas?
If I had to guess I would think its related to something running too soon. IE maybe I need to wait to boot the other container first before the other? 
I’m hoping I just overlooked something basic.
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polypush135
I was mistaken I can’t
Node.connectby hand after all. I was connecting the node to the same app thus is was saying true, I didn’t notice I was giving the wrong node name to connect to. When trying to use the correct node name I found it would return false thus the prob here is likely epmd is not able to connect because of docker.Exadra37
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