eggmonster 6.1

Eggmonster is a set of daemons and tools for managing Python daemons deployed to a cluster of computers.

Daemons

Eggmonster has four daemons, which are implemented using the eventful async library (which in turn depends on pyevent and libevent).

• monster_eggserver – implements a proprietary cheeseshop-like package repository
• monster_launchd – a TCP server with a custom application-level protocol that manages local processes
• monster_logd – a TCP server that writes all messages it receives to the filesystem
• monster_server – the “eggmonster master,” each instance provides service on three different TCP ports

Tools

Eggmonster includes four tools:

• em – remotely drive a monster_server instance
• emi – monster_server uses this to manage processes
• monster_debug – calls monster_run under rpdb2
• monster_run – call functions within an eggmonster environment
• fake-monster – a lightweight eggmonster application runner