IEx into Your Running App
Elixir supports getting a IEx shell into a running production node. How cool is that?
SSH Into Our App
To do this, we will login with SSH to our application VM. There is a one-time setup task for using SSH. Follow the instructions.
fly ssh issue --agent
With SSH configured, let's open a console.
fly ssh console -C "app/bin/hello_elixir remote"
Connecting to hello_elixir.internal... complete
Erlang/OTP 23 [erts-11.2.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:1:1] [ds:1:1:10] [async-threads:1]
Interactive Elixir (1.11.2) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(hello_elixir@fdaa:0:1da8:a7b:ac4:b204:7e29:2)1>
You have a live IEx shell into your application!
Tip: One of several ways to exit the IEx shell is to hit
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+C
; to log out of the VM console, use Ctrl+D
or exit
.What's Next?
With another quick update we can prepare our application for clustering by naming our nodes differently.
Next up, Naming Your Elixir Node!