[qa][tc] uwsgi is now in maintenance mode. how does this affect us ?

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Mon Feb 27 19:57:18 UTC 2023


On 2/27/23 18:24, Sean Mooney wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 07:23 -0800, Jay Faulkner wrote:
>> I've worked at a handful of places running OpenStack at large scale in
>> production. In many of those cases, we used the built-in service runner
>> (eventlet WSGI in at least some cases) and put an HTTP{s} proxy in front.
>>
>> I agree we should probably consider more commonly used-in-production
>> options; but we shouldn't throw out the existing eventlet wsgi server
>> support without explicit technical reasons. Why do you think it's not a
>> serious option?
> kolla used to default to useing the eventlet services untill a few release ago (victoria).
> so its a preferctly reasonable thing to do.

I don't agree. Using Eventlet as a web server has a huge impact on 
performace (uwsgi can serve twice the amount of requests). A web server 
in Python without using the multi-interpreter lib is, in general, a very 
bad idea.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)




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