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How to stop gunicorn properly

I'm starting gunicorn with the Django command python manage.py run_gunicorn. How can I stop gunicorn properly?

Note: I have a semi-automated server deployment with fabric. Thus using something like ps aux | grep gunicorn to kill the process manually by pid is not an option.

Solution

  • One option would be to use Supervisor to manage Gunicorn.

    Then again i don't see why you can't kill the process via Fabric. Assuming you let Gunicorn write a pid file you could easily read that file in a Fabric command.

    Something like this should work:

    run("kill `cat /path/to/your/file/gunicorn.pid`")