For an example app that uses Mix and works on Gigalixir, see https://github.com/gigalixir/gigalixir-getting-started/tree/js/mix

Configuration and Secrets

Then append something like the following in prod.exs. Don’t replace what you already have, just add this to the bottom.

config :gigalixir_getting_started, GigalixirGettingStartedWeb.Endpoint,
  http: [port: {:system, "PORT"}], # Possibly not needed, but doesn't hurt
  url: [host: System.get_env("APP_NAME") <> ".gigalixirapp.com", port: 443],
  secret_key_base: Map.fetch!(System.get_env(), "SECRET_KEY_BASE"),
  server: true

config :gigalixir_getting_started, GigalixirGettingStarted.Repo,
  adapter: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres,
  url: System.get_env("DATABASE_URL"),
  ssl: true,
  pool_size: 2 # Free tier db only allows 4 connections. Rolling deploys need pool_size*(n+1) connections where n is the number of app replicas.

Attention
server: true is very important and is commonly left out. Make sure you have this line included.

  1. Replace :gigalixir_getting_started with your app name e.g. :my_app

  2. Replace GigalixirGettingStartedWeb.Endpoint with your endpoint module name. You can find your endpoint module name by running something like

    grep -R "defmodule.*Endpoint" lib/

    Phoenix 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 give different names, so this is a common source of errors.

  3. Replace GigalixirGettingStarted.Repo with your repo module name e.g. MyApp.Repo

You don’t have to worry about setting your SECRET_KEY_BASE config because we generate one and set it for you.

Don’t forget to commit your changes

git add config/prod.exs
git commit -m "setup production deploys"

Verify

Let’s make sure everything works.

APP_NAME=foo SECRET_KEY_BASE="$(mix phx.gen.secret)" MIX_ENV=prod DATABASE_URL="postgresql://user:pass@localhost:5432/foo" PORT=4000 mix phx.server

Check it out.

curl localhost:4000

If everything works, continue on to Set Up App for Deploys.

Specify Buildpacks (Optional)

We rely on buildpacks to compile and build your release.

We auto-detect a variety of buildpacks so you probably don’t need this, but if you want to specify your own buildpacks create a .buildpacks file with the buildpacks you want.

For example,

https://github.com/HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir
https://github.com/gigalixir/gigalixir-buildpack-phoenix-static
https://github.com/gigalixir/gigalixir-buildpack-mix.git

gigalixir-buildpack-phoenix-static is optional if you do not have Phoenix static assets.

For more information about buildpacks, see the Life of a Deploy.

Note, that the command that gets run in production depends on what your last buildpack is.

  • If the last buildpack is gigalixir-buildpack-mix, then the command run will be something like elixir --name $MY_NODE_NAME --cookie $MY_COOKIE -S mix phx.server.
  • If the last buildpack is gigalixir-buildpack-phoenix-static, then the command run will be mix phx.server.
  • If the last buildpack is heroku-buildpack-elixir, then the command run will be mix run --no-halt.

If your command is mix run --no-halt, but you are running Phoenix (just not the assets pipeline), make sure you set server: true in prod.exs.

We highly recommend keeping gigalixir-buildpack-mix last so that your node name and cookie are set properly.

Without those, remote_console, ps:migrate, observer, etc won’t work.

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