Question

I’m starting gunicorn with the Django command python manage.py run_gunicorn. How can I stop gunicorn properly?

Note: I have a semi-automated server deployment with fabric. Thus using something like ps aux | grep gunicorn to kill the process manually by pid is not an option.

Answer 1

One option would be to use Supervisor to manage Gunicorn.

Then again i don’t see why you can’t kill the process via Fabric.
Assuming you let Gunicorn write a pid file you could easily read that file in a Fabric command.

Something like this should work:

run("kill `cat /path/to/your/file/gunicorn.pid`")