Re: Distributed erlang question

Maybe this could be helpful:
https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/running-distributed-erlang-elixir-applications-on-docker.html

Please check the docker-compose config at the beginning and commands used
for node connection.

Best regards,
Oleg

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 9:07 PM Matthew Evans <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We want to start an Erlang instance within a docker container. What we
> want to do is start the Erlang VM like:
>
> erl -setcookie bob -name [email protected]
>
> Since we may not have the interfaces up at that time we provide the lo
> address.
>
> When the interfaces are running we want to be able connect to that VM from
> a remote node with the actual address:
>
> erl -setcookie bob -name [email protected] -remsh [email protected]
>
> This fails...
>
> I know we can probably do this programmatically instead by starting the VM
> with no distribution and call net_kernel:start/1when the interface is
> ready. Question: is there a better way?
>
> Thanks
>
>