MMore

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Run only one instance of Oban

I have an Elixir apps which does some harder jobs in the background. I am using Oban to run them asynchrously. For better availability I’d like to spawn a second server instance of my Elixir app (I am using fly.io) but without spawing another Oban app there.

Currently Oban is just part of the Standard Application Supervision Tree:

def start(_type, _args) do
    children = [
      # Start the Ecto repository
      MyApp.Repo,
      MyAppWeb.Telemetry,
      {Phoenix.PubSub, name: MyApp.PubSub},
      MyAppWeb.Endpoint,
      {Oban, Application.fetch_env!(:my_app, Oban)}
    ]

    opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: MyApp.Supervisor]
    Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
  end

Any idea how to do it?

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engineeringdept

engineeringdept

You might also consider using Highlander to ensure a process only runs once, globally, in a cluster. I use it for Quantum cron jobs.

entone

entone

Can’t Oban work across multiple nodes and share the processing load?

MMore

MMore

I guess it can. But I have like jobs which need a lot of processing power. So I don’t wanna let them run on my web facing machine which has less power.

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sorentwo

sorentwo

Oban Core Team

You summarized it nicely.

One small note regarding Oban’s cron and how it interplays with uniqueness: the cron plugin inserts a single job which may be picked up by any node, just like any other job.

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