ansible-upstart

Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.

Forked from telusdigital because we need to depend on released versions.

Tunables

upstart_runtime_root (string) - Directory for runtime data
upstart_pidfile_path (string) - Path for pidfile
upstart_user (string) - User to run as
upstart_group (string) - Group to run as
upstart_name (string) - Name of the process
upstart_description (string) - Description of the process
upstart_start_on (list) - Events to start on
upstart_stop_on (list): - Events to stop on
upstart_file_descriptor_limit (integer) - File descriptor limit for the process
upstart_environment (list) - Environment data
upstart_environment_global (boolean) - Should env vars be global to all upstart scripts?
upstart_pre_start (list) - Commands to run prior to starting
upstart_post_stop (list) - Commands to run after stopping
upstart_script (list) - Script to run
upstart_respawn (boolean) - Should you respawn process on accidental shutdown?
upstart_respawn_limit (boolean) - Limit respawning the process up to $count times within an $interval second interval?
upstart_respawn_limit_count (integer) - upstart_respawn_limit $count mentioned above
upstart_respawn_limit_interval (integer) - upstart_respawn_limit $interval mentioned above
upstart_exec_path (string) - A single command to execute
upstart_exec_flags (list) - Parameters to be passed to the command
upstart_log_root (string) - Directory for logs
upstart_log_path (string) - Path for log file
upstart_capture_errors (boolean) - Redirect STDERR to STDOUT?

Dependencies

telusdigital.logrotate

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - role: telusdigital.upstart
       upstart_name: nginx
       upstart_description: "Upstart for Nginx HTTP Server"

License

MIT

Contributors

Chris Olstrom | e-mail | Twitter
Aaron Pederson
Justin Scott
Steven Harradine