graceful

Inspired by overseer and endless, with minimum codes and handy api to make http server graceful.

Prerequisite

• golang 1.8+
• linux/darwin(windows not supported)

Feature

• Graceful reload http servers, zero downtime on upgrade.
• Compatible with systemd, supervisor, etc.
• Drop-in placement for http.ListenAndServe

Example

    type handler struct {
    }

    func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, port: %v, %q", r.Host, html.EscapeString(r.URL.Path))
    }

    func main(){
	    graceful.ListenAndServe(":9222", &handler{})
    }

multi servers:

    func main(){
        server := graceful.NewServer()
        server.Register("0.0.0.0:9223", &handler{})
        server.Register("0.0.0.0:9224", &handler{})
        server.Register("0.0.0.0:9225", &handler{})
        err := server.Run()
        fmt.Printf("error: %v\n", err)
    }

More example checkout example folder.

Reload

SIGHUP and SIGUSR1 on master proccess are used as default to reload server. server.Reload() func works as well from your code.

Drawbacks

graceful starts a master process to keep pid unchaged for process managers(systemd, supervisor, etc.), and a worker proccess listen to actual addrs. That means graceful starts one more process. Fortunately, master proccess waits for signals and reload worker when neccessary, which is costless since reload is usually low-frequency action.

Default values

• StopTimeout. Unfinished old connections will be drop in {StopTimeout} seconds, default 20s, after new server is up.

	server := graceful.NewServer(graceful.WithStopTimeout(time.Duration(4 * time.Hour)))
	server.Register(addr, handler)
	if err := server.Run(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

• Signals. Default reload signals: syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGUSR1 and stop signals: syscall.SIGKILL, syscall.SIGTERM, syscall.SIGINT could be overwrited with:

	server := graceful.NewServer(graceful.WithStopSignals([]syscall.Signal{syscall.SIGKILL}), graceful.WithReloadSignals([]syscall.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP}))
	server.Register(addr, handler)
	if err := server.Run(); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

TODO

• ListenAndServeTLS
• Add alternative api: Run in single process without master-worker