Process manager
A process manager is software that controls, monitors, and supervises application processes throughout their lifecycles.
ASP.NET Core in Action, 3e
A process manager is software that monitors application processes and can restart or supervise them when they fail.
- How it is used
- Supports production deployment by supervising application processes independently from request forwarding.
- How deep it goes
- Explains monitoring and restart responsibilities, but does not provide process-manager configuration steps.
- Examples
- Uses systemd on Linux and IIS on Windows as examples of process-management arrangements.
- What you can do after
- Configure a process-management tool to monitor an application and restart it after crashes or unresponsiveness.
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Road to Kubernetes
A process manager is software that controls the lifecycle and execution state of long-running processes.
- How it is used
- Manages background applications and containers during deployment so services can be inspected, stopped, logged, and kept running.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates detached execution, identification, stopping, logging, shell access, and automatic restart, without developing process-manager internals.
- Examples
- Uses Python and Node.js applications under Supervisor and an NGINX container controlled through Docker commands.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Docker containers by starting, listing, logging, entering, stopping, naming, and automatically restarting them.
Related concepts
- docker psused by · docker ps is a Docker command-line command that lists containers and their runtime status and metadata, with options to include stopped containers.
- Supervisorincludes · Supervisor is a process-control system that starts, stops, and monitors long-running background processes.
- Internet Information Servicescontrasts with · Internet Information Services is Microsoft's web server and application-hosting platform for Windows.
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