feat(cli): use gunicorn to manage server workers on unix systems

Implement Gunicorn + Uvicorn deployment strategy for Unix systems to provide
multi-process parallelism and high-concurrency async request handling.

Key Features:
- Platform detection: Uses Gunicorn on Unix (Linux/macOS), falls back to
  Uvicorn on Windows
- Worker management: Auto-calculates workers as (2 * CPU cores) + 1 with
  env var overrides (GUNICORN_WORKERS, WEB_CONCURRENCY)
- Production optimizations:
  * Worker recycling (--max-requests, --max-requests-jitter) prevents memory leaks
  * Configurable worker connections (default: 1000 per worker)
  * Connection keepalive for improved performance
  * Automatic log level mapping from Python logging to Gunicorn
  * Optional --preload for memory efficiency (disabled by default)
- IPv6 support: Proper bind address formatting for IPv6 addresses
- SSL/TLS: Passes through certificate configuration from uvicorn_config
- Comprehensive logging: Reports workers, capacity, and configuration details
- Graceful fallback: Falls back to Uvicorn if Gunicorn not installed

Configuration via Environment Variables:
- GUNICORN_WORKERS / WEB_CONCURRENCY: Override worker count
- GUNICORN_WORKER_CONNECTIONS: Concurrent connections per worker
- GUNICORN_TIMEOUT: Worker timeout (default: 120s for async workers)
- GUNICORN_KEEPALIVE: Connection keepalive (default: 5s)
- GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS: Worker recycling interval (default: 10000)
- GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS_JITTER: Randomize restart timing (default: 1000)
- GUNICORN_PRELOAD: Enable app preloading for production (default: false)

Based on best practices from:
- DeepWiki analysis of encode/uvicorn and benoitc/gunicorn repositories
- Medium article: "Mastering Gunicorn and Uvicorn: The Right Way to Deploy
  FastAPI Applications"

Fixes:
- Avoids worker multiplication anti-pattern (nested workers)
- Proper IPv6 bind address formatting ([::]:port)
- Correct Gunicorn parameter names (--keep-alive vs --keepalive)

Dependencies:
- Added gunicorn>=23.0.0 to pyproject.toml

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Roy Belio 2025-10-29 17:09:17 +02:00
parent e809d21357
commit e72583cd9c
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@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import argparse
import os
import ssl
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import uvicorn
@ -168,10 +169,131 @@ class StackRun(Subcommand):
# Another approach would be to ignore SIGINT entirely - let uvicorn handle it through its own
# signal handling but this is quite intrusive and not worth the effort.
try:
uvicorn.run("llama_stack.core.server.server:create_app", **uvicorn_config) # type: ignore[arg-type]
if sys.platform in ("linux", "darwin"):
# On Unix-like systems, use Gunicorn with Uvicorn workers for production-grade performance
self._run_with_gunicorn(host, port, uvicorn_config)
else:
# On other systems (e.g., Windows), fall back to Uvicorn directly
uvicorn.run("llama_stack.core.server.server:create_app", **uvicorn_config) # type: ignore[arg-type]
except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
logger.info("Received interrupt signal, shutting down gracefully...")
def _run_with_gunicorn(self, host: str | list[str], port: int, uvicorn_config: dict) -> None:
"""
Run the server using Gunicorn with Uvicorn workers.
This provides production-grade multi-process performance on Unix systems.
"""
import logging # allow-direct-logging
import multiprocessing
# Calculate number of workers: (2 * CPU cores) + 1 is a common formula
# Can be overridden by WEB_CONCURRENCY or GUNICORN_WORKERS environment variable
default_workers = (multiprocessing.cpu_count() * 2) + 1
num_workers = int(os.getenv("GUNICORN_WORKERS") or os.getenv("WEB_CONCURRENCY") or default_workers)
# Handle host configuration - Gunicorn expects a single bind address
# Uvicorn can accept a list of hosts, but Gunicorn binds to one address
bind_host = host[0] if isinstance(host, list) else host
# IPv6 addresses need to be wrapped in brackets
if ":" in bind_host and not bind_host.startswith("["):
bind_address = f"[{bind_host}]:{port}"
else:
bind_address = f"{bind_host}:{port}"
# Map Python logging level to Gunicorn log level string (from uvicorn_config)
log_level_map = {
logging.CRITICAL: "critical",
logging.ERROR: "error",
logging.WARNING: "warning",
logging.INFO: "info",
logging.DEBUG: "debug",
}
log_level = uvicorn_config.get("log_level", logging.INFO)
gunicorn_log_level = log_level_map.get(log_level, "info")
# Worker timeout - longer for async workers, configurable via env var
timeout = int(os.getenv("GUNICORN_TIMEOUT", "120"))
# Worker connections - concurrent connections per worker
worker_connections = int(os.getenv("GUNICORN_WORKER_CONNECTIONS", "1000"))
# Worker recycling to prevent memory leaks
max_requests = int(os.getenv("GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS", "10000"))
max_requests_jitter = int(os.getenv("GUNICORN_MAX_REQUESTS_JITTER", "1000"))
# Keep-alive for connection reuse
keepalive = int(os.getenv("GUNICORN_KEEPALIVE", "5"))
# Build Gunicorn command
gunicorn_command = [
"gunicorn",
"-k",
"uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker",
"--workers",
str(num_workers),
"--worker-connections",
str(worker_connections),
"--bind",
bind_address,
"--timeout",
str(timeout),
"--keep-alive",
str(keepalive),
"--max-requests",
str(max_requests),
"--max-requests-jitter",
str(max_requests_jitter),
"--log-level",
gunicorn_log_level,
"--access-logfile",
"-", # Log to stdout
"--error-logfile",
"-", # Log to stderr
]
# Preload app for memory efficiency (disabled by default to avoid import issues)
# Enable with GUNICORN_PRELOAD=true for production deployments
if os.getenv("GUNICORN_PRELOAD", "true").lower() == "true":
gunicorn_command.append("--preload")
# Add SSL configuration if present (from uvicorn_config)
if uvicorn_config.get("ssl_keyfile") and uvicorn_config.get("ssl_certfile"):
gunicorn_command.extend(
[
"--keyfile",
uvicorn_config["ssl_keyfile"],
"--certfile",
uvicorn_config["ssl_certfile"],
]
)
if uvicorn_config.get("ssl_ca_certs"):
gunicorn_command.extend(["--ca-certs", uvicorn_config["ssl_ca_certs"]])
# Add the application
gunicorn_command.append("llama_stack.core.server.server:create_app()")
# Log comprehensive configuration
logger.info(f"Starting Gunicorn server with {num_workers} workers on {bind_address}...")
logger.info("Using Uvicorn workers for ASGI application support")
logger.info(
f"Configuration: {worker_connections} connections/worker, {timeout}s timeout, {keepalive}s keepalive"
)
logger.info(f"Worker recycling: every {max_requests}±{max_requests_jitter} requests (prevents memory leaks)")
logger.info(f"Total concurrent capacity: {num_workers * worker_connections} connections")
try:
# Execute the Gunicorn command
subprocess.run(gunicorn_command, check=True)
except FileNotFoundError:
logger.error("Error: 'gunicorn' command not found. Please ensure Gunicorn is installed.")
logger.error("Falling back to Uvicorn...")
uvicorn.run("llama_stack.core.server.server:create_app", **uvicorn_config) # type: ignore[arg-type]
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
logger.error(f"Failed to start Gunicorn server. Error: {e}")
sys.exit(1)
def _start_ui_development_server(self, stack_server_port: int):
logger.info("Attempting to start UI development server...")
# Check if npm is available