What is it?

BPM (Bash Process Manager) is a simple process runner / manager inspired by Foreman and tools alike. It is built based on Bash's job / process management capability.

Features

• Procfile.sh -- declare the processes to be run as functions in a Bash script.
• Processes defined in the Procfile.sh can be started / restarted / stopped individually.
• Logs process outputs to temporary files in addition to following the outputs, allowing third-party log viewing tools to be used for querying / filtering.
• Correctly kills the entire process group when stopping a process.
• Simple, single file implementation; runs wherever Bash is available.

Examples

With the example Procfile.sh script, we can start the processes with:

./bpm start

Then, in another shell, we can check the process statuses, as well as, starting or stopping the processes:

# Restart p1
./bpm list
./bpm stop p1
./bpm list
./bpm start p1

# Stop p2
./bpm stop p2
./bpm list

# Stop all processes
./bpm stop

Also, one can hit Ctrl-C in the log output window, where the first process was started, to stop all processes and quit the BPM monitoring process.