Deployment

Describing an Nginx Configuration

• Gunicorn should sit behind a proxy server
• Nginx is one of the most popular HTTP proxies
• This configuration file is fast for clients with Nginx

Using a Virtualenv

• Typically, we should serve an app from a virtual environment
• To do this, we should install Gunicorn directly into Virtualenv
• This will create a set of Gunicorn scripts for that Virtualenv
• These can be used to run applications normally
• With Virtualenv installed, we can run:

$ mkdir ~/venvs/
$ virtualenv ~/venvs/webapp
$ source ~/venvs/webapp/bin/activate
$ pip install gunicorn
$ deactivate

• To activate a virtual environment, we can run:

$ source ~/venvs/webapp/bin/activate
$ pip install -I gunicorn

References

• Gunicorn Documentation