Deployment.md

Deployment

Commanded supports running on a single node, or multiple nodes run as either a distributed Erlang cluster or as multiple single instance nodes.

Single node deployment

Running your app using Commanded on a single node requires no configuration as local is the default setting.

Multi node cluster deployment

To support deployment to a cluster of nodes you must use the Commanded Swarm registry library and Phoenix's distributed pub/sub and presence platform to allow process distribution and communication amongst all nodes in the cluster.

Commanded Swarm registry

Add commanded_swarm_registry to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:commanded_swarm_registry, "~> 0.1"}
  ]
end

Fetch mix dependencies:

$ mix deps.get

Configure your application to use the Swarm registry:

# config/config.exs
config :commanded,
  registry: Commanded.Registration.SwarmRegistry

This uses the Swarm to distribute process amongst the available nodes in the cluster.

Phoenix pub/sub

First, add it as a dependency to your project's mix.exs file:

defp deps do
  [
    {:phoenix_pubsub, "~> 1.0"}
  ]
end

Fetch mix deps and configure the pubsub settings in your environment config: file:

# `config/config.exs`
config :commanded, pubsub: [
  phoenix_pubsub: [
    adapter: Phoenix.PubSub.PG2,
    pool_size: 1
  ]
]

The PG2 adapter is preferable for cluster deployment since it is provided by Erlang and requires no further dependencies.

Multi node, but not clustered deployment

Running multiple nodes, but choosing not to connect the nodes together to form a cluster, requires that you use the local registry and Phoenix's pub/sub library with its Redis adapter.

You must install and use Phoenix's pub/sub library, as described above.

Since the nodes aren't connected, you are required to use the Redis adapter as a way of communicating between the nodes. Therefore you will need to host a Redis instance for use by your app.

# config/config.exs
config :commanded,
  registry: :local,
  pubsub: [
    phoenix_pubsub: [
      adapter: Phoenix.PubSub.Redis,
      host: "localhost",
      port: 6379,
      node_name: "localhost"
    ]
  ]