Gunicorn

The Gunicorn "Green Unicorn" (pronounced jee-unicorn or gun-i-corn)[2] is a Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) HTTP server. It is a pre-fork worker model, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with a number of web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources and fairly fast.[3] It is often paired with NGINX, as the two have complementary features.[4]

Gunicorn
Original author(s)Benoit Chesneau
Developer(s)Gunicorn Developers
Initial release20 February 2010 (2010-02-20)
Stable release
21.2.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 July 2023 (19 July 2023)
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeb server
LicenseMIT License
Websitewww.gunicorn.org
Benoit Chesneau, author of Gunicorn

Architecture

Server model [5]

  • Central master process to manage the workers
  • Requests are handled by worker processes
  • Components:
    • Master
    • Sync workers
    • Async workers
    • Tornado workers
    • AsyncIO workers

Features

  • Natively supports WSGI, web2py, Django and Paster
  • Automatic worker process management
  • Simple Python configuration
  • Multiple worker configurations
  • Various server hooks for extensibility
  • Compatible with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+[6]

See also

References
  1. "Gunicorn 21.2.0 has been released". 19 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. "Ambiguous Pronunciation · Issue #139 · benoitc/gunicorn". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  3. Gunicorn-Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
  4. Gunicorn and Nginx in a Nutshell
  5. "Design — Gunicorn 20.1.0 documentation".
  6. "Gunicorn 19.3 Documentation: Requirements". Archived from the original on 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2015-07-29.

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