[erlang-questions] Light-weight operating systems supporting Erlang in production web servers

[scott ribe]

On Sep 15, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Phil Toland <phil.toland@REDACTED> wrote:
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> I second the vote for Alpine Linux. My application is a mix of Erlang and Elixir and runs in Docker containers. I use Alpine as the base and I get reasonably sized containers that don't have anything I don't need.
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> As a side note, it isn't just about providing the necessary support to run the BEAM VM. I also want enough of a familiar environment (ls, ps, top, nslookup/dig, netstat) to troubleshoot issues. Alpine provides that without the other stuff that you don't need.
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> ~phil

When I looked at Alpine, the Erlang in their repo was too old for me. Do you guys build the releases yourselves, or live with older versions?

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