Async::Container

Provides containers which implement parallelism for clients and servers.

Features

Supports multi-process, multi-thread and hybrid containers.
Automatic scalability based on physical hardware.
Direct integration with systemd using $NOTIFY_SOCKET.
Internal process readiness protocol for handling state changes.
Automatic restart of failed processes.

Usage

Please browse the source code index or refer to the guides below.

Getting Started

This guide explains how to use async-container to build basic scalable systems.

Releases

Please browse the releases for more details.

v0.24.0

Add support for health check failure metrics.

v0.23.0

Add support for NOTIFY_LOG for Kubernetes readiness probes.

v0.21.0

Use SIGKILL/Thread#kill when the health check fails. In some cases, SIGTERM may not be sufficient to terminate a process because the signal can be ignored or the process may be in an uninterruptible state.

v0.20.1

Fix compatibility between class Async::Container::Hybrid and the health check.
Async::Container::Generic#initialize passes unused arguments through to class Async::Container::Group.

v0.20.0

Improve container signal handling reliability by using Thread.handle_interrupt except at known safe points.
Improved logging when child process fails and container startup.

Add health_check_timeout for detecting hung processes.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project.

Fork it.
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature).
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature').
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature).
Create new Pull Request.

Developer Certificate of Origin

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Community Guidelines

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