gunicorn Cookbook

Installs and configures the latest version of Gunicorn (via pip), aka Green Unicorn, a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. Includes an LWRP for managing Gunicorn config files. By default Gunicorn is installed system-wide but you can target a particular virtualenv by overriding the node["gunicorn"]["virtualenv"] attribute.

Requirements

Platforms

Debian/Ubuntu
RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Amazon/Oracle

Chef

Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

python

Attributes

node["gunicorn"]["virtualenv"] - the virtualenv you want to target Gunicorn installation into. The virtualenv will be created if it doesn't exist.

Resource/Provider

This cookbook includes LWRPs for managing gunicorn config files.

gunicorn_config

Creates a Gunicorn configuration file at the path specified. Meant to be deployed with a service init scheme/supervisor such as runit. Please see the appliation::gunicorn recipe for a complete working example. In depth information about Gunicorn's configuration values can be found in the Gunicorn documentation.

Actions

:create: create a Gunicorn configuration file.
:delete: delete an existing Gunicorn configuration file.

Attribute Parameters

path: name attribute. The path where the configuration file will be created
template: template to use when rendering the configuration file. default is gunicorn.py.erb (part of this cookbook)
cookbook: cookbook to look for template file in. default is this cookbook gunicorn
listen: the socket to bind to. A string of the form: 'HOST', 'HOST:PORT', 'unix:PATH'. default is 0.0.0.0:8000 or listen on port 8000 on all interfaces
backlog: The maximum number of pending connections. default is 2048
preload_app: Whether application code should be loaded before the worker processes are forked. default is false
worker_processes: The number of worker process for handling requests. default is 4
worker_class: The type of workers to use. default is sync
worker_timeout: The number of seconds to wait before a worker is killed and restarted. default is 60
worker_keepalive: The number of seconds to wait for requests on a Keep-Alive connection. default is 2
worker_max_requests: The maximum number of requests a worker will process before restarting. default is 0 or restarts disabled
server_hooks: A hash with whose values will be rendered as a Gunicorn server hook callables (functions) named after the hash item's key name. default is {} or no serves hooks
owner: The owner for the configuration file.
group: The group owner of the configuration file (string or id).
pid: A filename to use for the PID file. default is no pidfile
accesslog: The access log file to write to.
access_log_format: The access log format.
errorlog: The error log file to write to.
loglevel: The granularity of error log outputs.
logger_class: The logger you want to use to log events in gunicorn.
logconfig: The log config file to use.
secure_scheme_headers: A hash containing headers and values that the front-end proxy uses to indicate HTTPS requests.
forwarded_allow_ips: Front-end's IPs from which allowed to handle set secure headers. (comma separate).
proc_name: A base to use with setproctitle for process naming.

Example

# create a config with the default values
gunicorn_config "/etc/gunicorn/myapp.py" do
  action :create
end

# tweak some worker related values...we're web scale baby
gunicorn_config "/etc/gunicorn/myapp.py" do
  worker_processes 8
  backlog 4096
  action :create
end

# use the 'pre_fork' server hook to
# sleep for a second before forking
gunicorn_config "/etc/gunicorn/myapp.py" do
  server_hooks({:pre_fork => 'import time;time.sleep(1)'})
  action :create
end

Usage

Simply include the recipe where you want Gunicorn installed.

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

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