unicorn Cookbook

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

DEPRECATION NOTICE

This cookbook was originally coded prior to the adoption of bundler and rbenv/rvm. We don't believe that there's a need for installing unicorn into the system ruby in a modern ruby stack. We've chosen to deprecate the cookbook to prevent user confusion. We're open to rethinking this cookbook entirely and if that interests you drop us a line at cookbooks@chef.io

Requirements

Platforms

• Any platform the supports the unicorn gem

Chef Infra Client

• Chef Infra Client 14+

Cookbooks

• none

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
• 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 Chef'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 & Authors

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

Copyright: 2008-2015, Chef Software, Inc.

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