How to Run Jobs

There are many ways to run one-off jobs and tasks. You can run them in the container your app is running or you can spin up a new container that runs the command and then destroys itself.

To run a command in your app container, run:

gigalixir ps:run $COMMAND
# if you're using mix, you'll probably want $COMMAND to be something like `mix ecto.migrate`

To run a command in a separate container, run:

gigalixir run $COMMAND
# if you're using mix, you'll probably want $COMMAND to be something like `mix ecto.migrate`

The task is not run on the same node as your app running node. Jobs are killed after five minutes.

The size of the container that runs your job will be the same size as the app containers and billed the same way, based on replica-size-seconds. (For more on billing, see Pricing Details).