I’m following these two tutorials:
And I can create a release without so much effort, however, creating a .env file and then sourcing it doesn’t get effect…
My solution was to declare each env var manually, on one-line shot and run migrations and start the app.
Am I doing something wrong?
Do you export from the .env file?
Yeah I exported!
Can you then please tell more about your process?
How does your Dockerfile look like? Your entrypoint script? Your relevant config files?
The problem was that I was using System.fetch_env!/1, so all env vars weren’t loading on compile time… Changing to System.get_env/2 solved the issue!
However I’m getting two new problem now:
1 - When I create a release with MIX_ENV=prod mix release and then run _build/prod/rel/conts/bin/conts eval Conts.Release.migrate I get the following error:
** (RuntimeError) connect raised KeyError exception: key :database not found.
This is my runtime.exs:
import Config
secret_key_base = System.get_env("SECRET_KEY_BASE")
session_cookie_name = System.get_env("SESSION_COOKIE_NAME")
session_cookie_signing_salt = System.get_env("SESSION_COOKIE_SIGNING_SALT")
session_cookie_encryption_salt = System.get_env("SESSION_COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_SALT")
app_port = String.to_integer(System.get_env("PORT", "4000"))
app_hostname = System.get_env("HOST", "localhost")
db_url = System.get_env("DB_URL")
pool_size = String.to_integer(System.get_env("POOL_SIZE", "10"))
config :conts, Conts.Repo,
adapter: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres,
url: db_url,
pool_size: pool_size,
ssl: false
config :conts, ContsWeb.Endpoint,
load_from_system_env: true,
http: [:inet6, port: {:system, "PORT"}],
secret_key_base: secret_key_base,
session_cookie_name: session_cookie_name,
session_cookie_signing_salt: session_cookie_signing_salt,
session_cookie_encryption_salt: session_cookie_encryption_salt
config :conts,
app_port: app_port
config :conts,
app_hostname: app_hostname
The strange part is that if I set :show_sensitive_data_on_connection_error to true, this is the output:
** (KeyError) key :database not found in: [pool_index: 1, types: Postgrex.DefaultTypes, hostname: "localhost", username: "matthew", port: 5432, repo: Conts.Repo, telemetry_prefix: [:conts, :repo], otp_app: :conts, timeout: 15000, adapter: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres, show_sensitive_data_on_connection_error: true, ssl: false, pool_size: 2, pool: DBConnection.ConnectionPool]
Why the :username is getting my system’s username? I don’t even set that anywhere…
2 - When I run mix test, I got this error on controllers: ** (ArgumentError) cookie store expects conn.secret_key_base to be set
However, on test env the secret_key_base wasn’t set by default?
this is my config.exs:
# This file is responsible for configuring your application
# and its dependencies with the aid of the Mix.Config module.
#
# This configuration file is loaded before any dependency and
# is restricted to this project.
# General application configuration
use Mix.Config
config :conts,
ecto_repos: [Conts.Repo],
generators: [binary_id: true]
# Configures the endpoint
config :conts, ContsWeb.Endpoint,
url: [host: "localhost"],
secret_key_base: "JqlSibgU/Ykrwvzz1ByJn2xayNDJlXkuBzmqHIW2yILDXSI3IHB2VbTqde/sIQw4",
render_errors: [view: ContsWeb.ErrorView, accepts: ~w(html json), layout: false],
pubsub_server: Conts.PubSub,
live_view: [signing_salt: "LvrsHaeP"]
# Configures Elixir's Logger
config :logger, :console,
format: "$time $metadata[$level] $message\n",
metadata: [:request_id]
# Use Jason for JSON parsing in Phoenix
config :phoenix, :json_library, Jason
if Mix.env() != :prod do
config :git_hooks,
auto_install: true,
verbose: true,
hooks: [
pre_commit: [
tasks: [
{:cmd, "mix format"},
{:cmd, "mix credo --strict"}
]
],
pre_push: [
verbose: false,
tasks: [
{:cmd, "mix dialyzer"},
{:cmd, "mix test"},
{:cmd, "echo 'success!'"}
]
]
]
end
# Mailing configs
email_domain = "boosting.tech"
config :conts, Conts.Mailing,
adapter: Bamboo.LocalAdapter,
open_email_in_browser_url: "http://localhost:4000/sent_emails"
# Pow
config :conts, :pow,
user: Conts.Accounts.User,
repo: Conts.Repo,
extensions: [PowResetPassword, PowEmailConfirmation],
web_module: ContsWeb,
controller_callbacks: Pow.Extension.Phoenix.ControllerCallbacks,
mailer_backend: Conts.Mailing,
web_module_mailer: Conts
# Conts custom configs
config :conts, mailing_default_from_name: "Sistema Conts"
config :conts, mailing_default_from_email: "noreplyconts@boosting.tech"
# Import environment specific config. This must remain at the bottom
# of this file so it overrides the configuration defined above.
import_config "#{Mix.env()}.exs"
Other files:
Dockerfile:
# Set global arg for multistage
ARG DB_URL
FROM elixir:1.11.2-alpine AS builder
RUN apk add --no-cache yarn build-base
RUN mkdir /app
WORKDIR /app
ARG DB_URL
ARG SECRET_KEY_BASE
ARG SESSION_COOKIE_NAME
ARG SESSION_COOKIE_SIGNING_SALT
ARG SESSION_COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_SALT
# Mix env
ENV MIX_ENV=prod \
DB_URL=$DB_URL \
SECRET_KEY_BASE=$SECRET_KEY_BASE \
SESSION_COOKIE_NAME=$SESSION_COOKIE_NAME \
SESSION_COOKIE_SIGNING_SALT=$SESSION_COOKIE_SIGNING_SALT \
SESSION_COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_SALT=$SESSION_COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_SALT
# Cache elixir deps
ADD mix.exs mix.lock ./
RUN mix local.rebar
RUN mix local.hex --force
RUN mix do deps.get, deps.compile
# Same with node deps
COPY assets assets
RUN yarn --cwd assets
COPY lib lib
COPY config config
COPY priv priv
# Run frontend build, compile, and digest assets
RUN yarn --cwd assets deploy && \
cd - && \
mix do compile, phx.digest
RUN mix release
# ---- Application Stage ----
FROM alpine AS app
ARG DB_URL
ENV MIX_ENV=prod \
DB_URL=$DB_URL \
SHELL=/bin/fish
# Intall needed packages
RUN apk --no-cache upgrade && \
apk add --no-cache openssl \
ncurses-libs postgresql-client fish
# Copy over the build artifact from the previous step and create a non root user
RUN adduser -D -h /home/app app
WORKDIR /home/app
COPY --from=builder /app/_build .
RUN chown -R app: ./prod
USER app
COPY entrypoint.sh .
# Run the Phoenix app
CMD ["./entrypoint.sh"]
entrypoint.sh:
#!/bin/sh
# Docker entrypoint script.
# Wait until Postgres is ready
while ! pg_isready -q -d $DB_URL
do
echo "$(date) - waiting for database to start"
sleep 2
done
echo "Connected to the database"
./prod/rel/conts/bin/conts eval Conts.Release.migrate
./prod/rel/conts/bin/conts start
What is DB_URL in the system environment?
Do you perhaps have no dockerignore file which contains _build and deps and therefore partial builds slip into your container, which again might cause config values to exist that you do not want to exist?
Well, I’m trying to generate the release on my local machine to test, and DB_URL is being set to postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/conts_dev
I’m creating the release as:
MIX_ENV=prod DB_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/conts_dev mix release
And how do you run it?
runned as: _build/prod/rel/conts/bin/conts eval Conts.Release.migrate
Before that have you explicitely set and exported the DB_URL?
runtime.exs is re read on each start, but not on build at all, so you have to have the environment set on start, not on build.
Ok, locally I dind’t export the DB_URL, executing in fish shel: setenv DB_URL postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/conts_dev, solves the first problem…
In production (Dockerfile) the DB_URL will be set “globally”, so I won’t get this error!
Than you so much! You accompanying me helps so much (:
But the test problem persists…
Just wanted to note that the change you made here didn’t actually make the difference you thought it did. Both of those calls are executed at the same time. Which is usually runtime unless you’re using a module attribute or some other compile time facility.
Yeah! Now I understand better the compile/runtime thing!
I can create the release as:
MIX_ENV=prod mix release
without any env var such as DB_URL
But when I start the app I need to export or set on one-line!
However… You have any idea why my tests are breaking with this error:
** (ArgumentError) cookie store expects conn.secret_key_base to be set?
It seems that on test env the app is retrieving th SECRET_KEY_BASE env var, but this one is only set on runtime.exs
executing tests as:
SECRET_KEY_BASE=xxxxxxx mix test
gives me:
Finished in 41.0 seconds
35 tests, 0 failures
As far as I know, config/test.exs does not set or overwrite the secret_key_base in a default generated application.
So you might have changed some things for a reason or by accident. It does not make (much) sense to read the env during test. If you do not want to hardcode a secret_key_base in config/config.exs (which is still there) you can remove it there and use config/runtime.exs instead to read it from the env, while hardcoding some “well known secret” in config/test.exs.
Or you just don’t touch the value in the test config and use the one from the “main” config as a well known default, that you shouldn’t use in production then though.
That’s the problem… I didn’t change nothing for tests neither test.exs
grepping for SECRET_KEY_BASE and secret_key_base gaves me this:
conts git:(deploy)$✘!? elixir:(1.11.0)
ﬦ grep -rnw . -e 'secret_key_base' --exclude-dir deps -I -l
./erl_crash.dump
./config/runtime.exs
./config/config.exs
./assets/node_modules/phoenix/lib/phoenix/endpoint.ex
./assets/node_modules/phoenix/lib/phoenix/socket/transport.ex
./assets/node_modules/phoenix/lib/phoenix/token.ex
./assets/node_modules/phoenix/lib/phoenix/endpoint/supervisor.ex
./_build/prod/rel/conts/releases/0.1.0/runtime.exs
./_build/prod/rel/conts/releases/0.1.0/sys.config
./_build/prod/rel/conts/tmp/conts-0.1.0-20201230182825-2b8b.runtime.config
conts git:(deploy)$✘!? elixir:(1.11.0)
ﬦ grep -rnw . -e 'SECRET_KEY_BASE' --exclude-dir deps -I -l
./config/runtime.exs
./_build/prod/rel/conts/releases/0.1.0/runtime.exs
./deploy/deploy.sh
./deploy/Dockerfile
Which I think is totally fine
I’ll try rollback on one branch! I created a new one called deploy for this case! If everything goes wrong, rollback haha
If you get here from google, I strongly advise you to read the entire topic! You’ll learn a lot!
Yeah! Rolling back to another branch solved the test issues…
So summing up:
env var not matter on creating a release with
MIX_ENV=prod mix release
they only matter on starting the release!
Thank you all so much!
It is not that easy. Depending on how and where you read them they might also affect the build.
config/runtime.exs is only evaluated during application boot, therefore its solely runtime config.
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