Restart app after server reboot

[rlb3]

I’m deploying an elixir OTP release on a Redhat 6.6 server. What is the best practice to have the elixir app restart when the server reboots?

Thank,
Robert

[wmnnd]

Running Elixir on a dedicated/virtual Linux server, you probably want to set up your Release as a systemd service unit.

Take a look at the relevant guide in the Distillery documentation:

https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/use-with-systemd.html

[OvermindDL1]

I do this on RedHat 7:

PidFile - create and manage a PID file from the BEAM process

I created a new library (rather I pulled out a couple files from my big project), it manages an operating system PID file for the BEAM. The reason you might want this it to make a ‘proper’ systemd management file or something, or just an easy way to identify the PID’s of your multiple BEAM processes (I have a lot of BEAM instances running for example, this is useful to figure out which is which). It’s Hex URL: https://hex.pm/packages/pid_file It’s README.md: PidFile Manages a simple OS PID…