Release error: Failed to create cookie file '/.erlang.cookie'

Can you show us your Docker file? The error you’re getting is basically “access denied, can’t create file” basically, btw.

Sure, but I wonder if the cookie path can be somehow changed in vm.args.

FROM alpine:latest

RUN mkdir -p /app && chown -R nobody: /app
# By doing this the app doesn't boot, it complains about the owner of the file
# RUN touch /.erlang.cookie && chmod 600 /.erlang.cookie

WORKDIR /app
USER nobody

COPY --chown=nobody:nobody _build/prod/rel/my_app .

ENV REPLACE_OS_VARS=true
ENV HTTP_PORT=4291 BEAM_PORT=14291 ERL_EPMD_PORT=24291

EXPOSE $HTTP_PORT $BEAM_PORT $ERL_EPMD_PORT
ENTRYPOINT ["/app/bin/my_app"]

Not sure about the file – you can probably create it outside of Docker and jitsu mount it as a volume?

Or, according to docker-ejabberd/ecs at master · processone/docker-ejabberd · GitHub you can also just set the ERLANG_COOKIE environment variable (inside the container I mean).

Isn’t it RELEASE_COOKIE cf mix release — Mix v1.20.2 ?

or even set it in the Mix.Project.project releases I believe

Could be, I was looking at the Erlang config.

It seems that the Erlang restringes the location of the erlang.cookie file, it will be created in the $HOME directory.

What happened is that $HOME was set to /

Once I changed it in the Dockerfile, the file could be created and the app booted!

ENV HOME=/app

Thanks you all guys!