Setting up Gunicorn Flask app to work with openziti

Building/Development
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I'm trying to get my gunicorn flask app working with openziti. Using your examples as reference I have managed to get the same flask app but using waitress to serve the app to work. However ideally I would like to you use gunicorn rather than waitress. However swapping them directly does not seem to work error seen here.

Here are the 2 methods with the ziti decorator using the same binding object. Waitress works but gunicorn does not.

    bind_opts = {
        'ztx': ziti_path('identity.json'),
        'service': 'example-service-name'
    }
    
    @openziti.zitify(bindings={'0.0.0.0:5000': bind_opts})
    def gunicorn_run_zitty(self):
        self.run()  # self is an instance of gunicorn's BaseApplication

    @openziti.zitify(bindings={'0.0.0.0:5000': bind_opts})
    def run_waitress_ziti(self):
        from waitress import serve
        print("starting server on OpenZiti overlay")
        serve(self.application, host="0.0.0.0", port=5000)

the options currently passed to the gunicorn contructor are

{
    'bind': '0.0.0.0:5000,
    'workers': 4,
    "certfile": cert_path('cert.pem'),
    "keyfile": cert_path('key.pem')
}

gunicorn is currently running using a self-sign certificate & thus the endpoints running in the flask app require https, however waitress does not support this natively so is running on http.

2

Thank you for trying it out and entering the issue in Github.

gunicorn processing pattern -- parent + forked workers -- is not currently supported. I hope to get to it soon

3

I'm using gunicorn with Django and would be interested in switching from a reverse proxy.

4

Got it working with waitress instead of gunicorn :+1:

Thanks @ekoby!