mybigman / go-graceful

A best practice http server set up that supports graceful shutdown

graceful

Best practice http server configurations and helpers for Go 1.8's http graceful shutdown feature. Currently supports best practice configurations by:

• Cloudflare

Usage

To install this library, do:

go get github.com/ory/graceful

Running Cloudflare Config with Graceful Shutdown

package main

import (
    "net/http"
    "log"

    "github.com/ory/graceful"
)

func main() {
    server := graceful.WithDefaults(&http.Server{
        Addr: ":54932",
        // Handler: someHandler,
    })

    log.Println("main: Starting the server")
    if err := graceful.Graceful(server.ListenAndServe, server.Shutdown); err != nil {
        log.Fatalln("main: Failed to gracefully shutdown")
    }
    log.Println("main: Server was shutdown gracefully")
}