Description

Installs and configures unicorn, and provides a definition to manage configuration file for Rack apps running under unicorn.

Requirements

Should work anywhere.

Definitions

unicorn_config

The unicorn_config definition manages the configuration template for an application running under unicorn.

Parameters:

• listen - Default is nil.
• working_directory - Default is nil.
• worker_timeout - Default is 60.
• preload_app - Default is false.
• worker_processes - Number of worker processes to spawn. Default is 4.
• unicorn_command_line - If set, specifies the unicorn commandline to set in the config file. Usefull when sandboxing your unicorn installation.
• forked_user - User to run children as. Default is nil.
• forked_group - Group to run children as. You must specify a forked_user as well to use this attribute. Default is nil.
• before_exec - Default is nil.
• before_fork - Default is nil.
• after_fork - Default is nil.
• pid - Pidfile location. Default is nil.
• stderr_path - Where stderr gets logged. Default is nil.
• stdout_path - Where stdout gets logged. Default is nil.
• notifies - How to notify another service if specified. Default is nil.
• owner - Owner of the template. Default is nil.
• group - group of the template. Default is nil.
• mode - mode of the template. Default is nil.
• unicorn_command_line - Specify the command-line for the unicorn binary as a string. Populates Unicorn::HttpServer::START_CTX[0]. Default is nil.
• copy_on_write - Whether the app should take advantage of REE Copy On Write feature. Default is false.
• enable_stats - Whether the app should have GC profiling enabled for instrumentation. Default is false.

For more information on copy_on_write and enable_stats, see:

• http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/faq.html#adapt_apps_for_cow
• https://newrelic.com/docs/ruby/ruby-gc-instrumentation

Respectively.

Examples:

Setting some custom attributes in a recipe (this is from Opscode's application::unicorn.

node.default[:unicorn][:worker_timeout] = 60
node.default[:unicorn][:preload_app] = false
node.default[:unicorn][:worker_processes] = [node[:cpu][:total].to_i * 4, 8].min
node.default[:unicorn][:preload_app] = false
node.default[:unicorn][:before_fork] = 'sleep 1'
node.default[:unicorn][:port] = '8080'
node.set[:unicorn][:options] = { :tcp_nodelay => true, :backlog => 100 }

unicorn_config "/etc/unicorn/#{app['id']}.rb" do
  listen({ node[:unicorn][:port] => node[:unicorn][:options] })
  working_directory ::File.join(app['deploy_to'], 'current')
  worker_timeout node[:unicorn][:worker_timeout]
  preload_app node[:unicorn][:preload_app]
  worker_processes node[:unicorn][:worker_processes]
  before_fork node[:unicorn][:before_fork]
end

License and Author

• Author: Adam Jacob adam@opscode.com

• Copyright 2009-2013, Opscode, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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