I made a very small Phoenix Framework app (only slightly modified from what you get when you run: mix phoenix.new). I've been trying to deploy it in a Docker container. It works fine while the container is running, but it always dies within a minute of startup with a message of "Killed." Whether I make requests to it or not does not seem to matter. I tried watching the docker events, and got the following:
$ docker events
2016-04-09T16:24:02.538602484-04:00 container create
ef45a768723c64125c717a7b40ee7513e477f27339c6266bd28cc3084c60e11f
(image=gcr.io/myprojectname/myapp:v2, name=amazing_bhabha)
2016-04-09T16:24:02.550438045-04:00 container attach
ef45a768723c64125c717a7b40ee7513e477f27339c6266bd28cc3084c60e11f
(image=gcr.io/myprojectname/myapp:v2, name=amazing_bhabha)
2016-04-09T16:24:02.599731705-04:00 network connect
c64a1439c8095f82ab0fea5c48b563c8aac7256d6064b3189b0bc8d052d69fe4
(name=bridge, type=bridge, container=ef45a768723c64125c717a7b40ee7513e477f27339c6266bd28cc3084c60e11f)
2016-04-09T16:24:02.600048755-04:00 container start
ef45a768723c64125c717a7b40ee7513e477f27339c6266bd28cc3084c60e11f
(image=gcr.io/myprojectname/myapp:v2, name=amazing_bhabha)
2016-04-09T16:24:53.858352733-04:00 container die
ef45a768723c64125c717a7b40ee7513e477f27339c6266bd28cc3084c60e11f
(name=amazing_bhabha, image=gcr.io/myprojectname/myapp:v2)
2016-04-09T16:24:53.930349810-04:00 network disconnect
c64a1439c8095f82ab0fea5c48b563c8aac7256d6064b3189b0bc8d052d69fe4
(container=ef45a768723c64125c717a7b40ee7513e477f27339c6266bd28cc3084c60e11f, name=bridge, type=bridge)
I'm still very new to Docker and Elixir, so I'm not sure what other research I can do into this. There is a similar sounding question here: I run a docker container,but after few minutes , it was killed by himself
But I'm not sure how or if the OP ever resolved it. Thanks in advance for any hints. Please let me know if there's any other information I can get that might help.
Edit 1: I learned that docker ps -a will actually tell me the exit code, which I haven't found elsewhere. All of my containers are exiting with a 137 error code. My docker VM has 4GB of memory, so I tried running with a -m=3g flag but got the same result. I also did not see any processes in the Windows process explorer approach 3GB.
Edit 2: I played around a bit more with the memory limit on my container and found that the time the container lives is directly correlated to how much memory I allow it. So I created a totally new project (mix --no-brunch --no-ecto phoenix.new),copied my Dockerfile, and tried to build and run it. It gave me exactly the same results. This leads me to believe that my problem is in my Dockerfile or how I'm running the app.
Dockerfile:
FROM marcelocg/phoenix
MAINTAINER Arcaten
RUN echo $PWD
#Copy source
ADD . ./
#Get dependencies
RUN yes | mix local.hex
RUN yes | mix deps.get
#compile
RUN yes | mix compile
RUN ls -l
EXPOSE 4000
#Run server
ENTRYPOINT yes | MIX_ENV=dev mix phoenix.server
Build:
docker build -t hello_phoenix .
Run:
docker run -p 4000:4000 -m=512m hello_phoenix
And with that, it runs for about 7 seconds and exits with a 137 error code.
Edit 3: Since I was getting "OOMKill":true in my containers, I tried moving in the other direction. I removed the memory cap from my run commands. I still get the same result, but now "OOMKill" is set to false and all of the memory numbers from my inspects now read 0. Also, the StopSignal is now set to "15"
