How to deploy a standalone CherryPy process?

Question

I'm currently preparing to deploy a stand-alone CherryPy app. While I could just hack together a boot script and shoehorn it into the system's startup sequence, I'd rather find a more elegant solution.

What I need to do is:

• Start the app as a daemon during boot
• Restart it if it crashes
• Monitor CPU/memory usage

I'm sure there must be an existing solution for this. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Specific to cherrypy, it has daemonizer and pidfile plugins. And the cherryd script supports them as command-line options.

More generally, monit and supervisord are popular choices for process monitoring. See this question .