Puma integration with systemd for better daemonising under modern Linux systemds: notify, status, watchdog.
- Notify systemd when puma has booted and is ready to handle requests
- Publish puma stats as systemd service status for a quick overview
- Use the watchdog to make sure your puma processes are healthy and haven't locked up or run out of memory
Puma already natively supports socket activation.
Add this gem to your Gemfile with puma and then bundle:
gem "puma"
gem "puma-plugin-systemd"
Add it to your puma config:
# config/puma.rb
bind "tcp://127.0.0.1:9292"
workers 2
threads 8, 16
plugin :systemd
Make sure puma is being started using a systemd service unit
with Type=notify
, something like:
# puma.service
[Service]
Type=notify
User=puma
WorkingDirectory=/app
ExecStart=/app/bin/puma -C config/puma.rb -e production
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
Restart=always
KillMode=mixed
Running in notify mode as above should just start publishing puma stats as
systemd status. Running systemctl status puma.service
or similar should
result in a Status line in your status output:
app@web:~$ sudo systemctl status puma.service
● puma.service - puma
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/puma.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-10-24 00:26:55 UTC; 5s ago
Main PID: 32234 (ruby2.7)
Status: "puma 3.6.0 cluster: 2/2 workers: 8/16 threads, 8 available, 0 backlog"
Tasks: 10
Memory: 167.9M
CPU: 7.150s
CGroup: /system.slice/puma.service
├─32234 puma 3.6.0 (unix:///app/tmp/sockets/puma.sock?backlog=1024) [app]
├─32251 puma: cluster worker 0: 32234 [app]
└─32253 puma: cluster worker 1: 32234 [app]
Oct 24 00:26:10 web systemd[30762]: puma.service: Executing: /app/bin/puma -C config/puma.rb -e production
Oct 24 00:54:58 web puma[32234]: [32234] Puma starting in cluster mode...
Oct 24 00:54:58 web puma[32234]: [32234] * Version 3.6.0 (ruby 2.3.1-p112), codename: Sleepy Sunday Serenity
Oct 24 00:54:58 web puma[32234]: [32234] * Min threads: 8, max threads: 64
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] * Environment: production
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] * Process workers: 2
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] * Phased restart available
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] * Listening on unix:///app/tmp/sockets/puma.sock?backlog=1024
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] Use Ctrl-C to stop
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] * systemd: notify ready
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32251] + Gemfile in context: /app/Gemfile
Oct 24 00:26:55 web systemd[1]: Started puma.
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32234] * systemd: watchdog detected (30000000usec)
Oct 24 00:26:55 web puma[32234]: [32253] + Gemfile in context: /app/Gemfile
Adding a WatchdogSec=30
or similar to your systemd service file will tell
puma systemd to ping systemd at half the specified interval to ensure the
service is running and healthy.
After checking out the repo, run script/setup
to install dependencies. Then,
run rake test
to run the tests. You can also run script/console
for an
interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install
. To
release a new version, update the version number in version.rb
, and then run
bundle exec rake release
, which will create a git tag for the version, push
git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to rubygems.org.
There is an example
directory which contains a Dockerfile and basic
configuration for testing. To use it:
cd example
# Build an image with systemd, puma and the plugin configured
docker build --tag example .
# Start a new container from the image in the background
docker run --name example --privileged --detach --rm example
# Show puma systemd integration
docker exec example systemctl status puma
# Stop the container
docker exec example halt
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sj26/puma-plugin-systemd.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.