Honcho.readthedocs.io Website Review

Welcome! This is the home of Honcho and its docu*entation. Honcho is: simplify deployment and configuration of your applications in both development and production environments. simple web application, you might have a Procfile that looks like this: You’d then be able to run your application using the following command: Now, if running your application is as simple as typing python myapp.py, then perhaps Honcho isn’t that useful. But imagine that a few months have pas*ed, and running your application is now substantially more complicated. You need to have the following running in parallel: a web server, a high priority job queue worker, and a low priority job queue worker. In addition, you’ve established that you web: gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT -w 4 myapp:app worker: python worker.py --priority high,med,low Again, you can start all three processes with a single command: As you add features to your application, you shouldn’t be forced to bundle everything up into a single process just to make the application easier to run. The Procfile format allows you to specify how to run your application, even when it’s made up of multiple anything negative about Foreman. But I’ve worked in Python-only development environments, where installing Ruby just so I can run Procfile applications seemed a bit crazy. Python, on the other hand, is part of the Linux Standard Base For more about the Procfile format, .env files, and command-line options to Honcho, see Using Procfiles If you have any difficulty using Honcho or this docu*entation, please get in touch with me, Nick Stenning, on Twitter at @nickstenning ------------------------- Free docu*ent hosting provided by Read the Docs