I started over. Wiped out my dokku installation, re-initialized my phoenix 1.5 application. Somewhere while tweaking the configuration for the umbrella app, I must have done something incorrectly, because it seems to work now. Going to try the same for a plain vanilla phoenix application.

I used to use Heroku but it got too expensive for running a few personal apps. I also tried Dokku but it was more complicated than I expected and I couldn’t get it setup right.

I ended up going with a very simple solution; using some SSH scripts to deploy my apps. It’s not the prettiest, but it works quite well. I have it working on a few apps. My solution is here if you are interested: GitHub - jswny/sad: Simple app deployment using only SSH and Docker. · GitHub. Basically, you have the CI build the Docker image, push it to Docker hub, and then just SSH into the remote server copying over your Docker Compose file, which pulls down the new image and runs docker-compose up. That repository has a few extra environment variable handling niceties which I use to configure the apps based on their release channel, so it also copies over a .env populated with the right environment variables for your apps.

Thanks for the suggestion, outlog. I double-checked, and yes, I’m loading in the correct order and I do have the node version set correctly in the phoenix_static_buildpack.config.

It’s possible I misconfigured something else. I’m probably going to just rebuild the VM from the ground up and try again from scratch to see what, if anything, I missed.