Running a Django app with Gunicorn and Upstart

Skimmed from here, I mostly just changed the last line that starts Gunicorn from using gunicorn_django to plain gunicorn, as recommended by the Django overlords.

/etc/init/yourapp.conf:

description "Your App"
author "Your Name "

start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems)
stop on shutdown
respawn

script
    export HOME="/root/of/django/app" # i.e. where "manage.py" can be found
    export PATH="$PATH:/root/of/django/app/env/bin" # "env" is our virtualenv
    export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE="settings"
    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
    cd $HOME
    exec $HOME/env/bin/gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:8000 -w 1 --log-file /var/log/gunicorn/yourapp.log app
end script

app.py:

import os, sys

sys.path.insert(0, '/root/of/django/app/')
path = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
if path not in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(path)

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

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Note to Self: More on South

Setup being along the dev → test → prod lines, to correctly manage database migrations we first set things up at dev:

manage.py syncdb --noinput
manage.py convert_to_south <app>
manage.py createsuperuser

At this point the South migrations are being pushed to repository and pulled in at test:

manage.py syncdb --noinput
manage.py migrate
manage.py migrate <app> 0001 --fake
manage.py createsuperuser

Now, back at dev, after a change to one of the models:

manage.py schemamigration <app> --auto
manage.py migrate <app>
And, after push/pull, at test:
manage.py migrate <app>

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Handling Amazon SNS notifications with a Tastypie Resource

Using Django and Tastypie, we automagically respond to SNS subscription requests. After that part is handled, the notification messages start coming in and those are used to trigger an SQS polling cycle (trying to do a thorough job there which may seem like an overkill but it's not). A received SQS message is parsed and contents are passed to an external program that forks and exits which keeps the request from blocking.

from django.conf import settings
from tastypie import fields, http
from tastypie.resources import Resource
from tastypie.bundle import Bundle
from tastypie.authentication import Authentication
from tastypie.authorization import Authorization
from tastypie.throttle import BaseThrottle
import boto.sq 
from boto.sqs.message import Message
from urlparse import urlparse
import base64, httplib, tempfile, subprocess, time, json, os, sys, syslog

# Http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/non_orm_data_sources.html
class NotificationObject(object):
    def __init__(self, initial=None):
        self.__dict__['_data'] = {}
        if hasattr(initial, 'items'):
            self.__dict__['_data'] = initial
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        return self._data.get(name, None)
    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        self.__dict__['_data'][name] = value

class NotificationResource(Resource):
    sns_messageid = fields.CharField(attribute='MessageId')
    sns_timestamp = fields.CharField(attribute='Timestamp')
    sns_topicarn = fields.CharField(attribute='TopicArn')
    sns_type = fields.CharField(attribute='Type')
    sns_unsubscribeurl = fields.CharField(attribute='UnsubscribeURL')
    sns_subscribeurl = fields.CharField(attribute='SubscribeURL')
    sns_token = fields.CharField(attribute='Token')
    sns_message = fields.CharField(attribute='Message')
    sns_subject = fields.CharField(attribute='Subject')
    sns_signature = fields.CharField(attribute='Signature')
    sns_signatureversion = fields.CharField(attribute='SignatureVersion')
    sns_signingcerturl = fields.CharField(attribute='SigningCertURL')

    class Meta:
        resource_name = 'notification'
        object_class = NotificationObject
        fields = ['sns_messageid']
        list_allowed_methods = ['post']
        authentication = Authentication()
        authorization = Authorization()

    def get_resource_uri(self, bundle_or_obj):
        return ''

    def obj_create(self, bundle, request=None, **kwargs):

        bundle.obj = NotificationObject(initial={ 'MessageId': '', 'Timestamp': '', 'TopicArn': '', 'Type': '', 'UnsubscribeURL': '', 'SubscribeURL': '', 'Token': '', 'Message': '', 'Subject': '', 'Signature': '', 'SignatureVersion': '', 'SigningCertURL': '' })
        bundle = self.full_hydrate(bundle)

        o = urlparse(bundle.data['SigningCertURL'])
        if not o.hostname.endswith('.amazonaws.com'):
            return bundle

        topicarn = bundle.data['TopicArn']

        if topicarn != settings.SNS_TOPIC:
            return bundle

        if not self.verify_message(bundle):
            return bundle

        if bundle.data['Type'] == 'SubscriptionConfirmation':
            self.process_subscription(bundle)
        elif bundle.data['Type'] == 'Notification':
            self.process_notification(bundle)

        return bundle

    def process_subscription(self, bundle):
        syslog.syslog('SNS Subscription ' + bundle.data['SubscribeURL'])
        o = urlparse(bundle.data['SubscribeURL'])
        conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(o.hostname)
        conn.putrequest('GET', o.path + '?' + o.query)
        conn.endheaders()
        response = conn.getresponse()
        subscription = response.read()

    def process_notification(self, bundle):
        sqs = boto.sqs.connect_to_region(settings.SQS_REGION)
        queue = sqs.lookup(settings.SQS_QUEUE)
        retries = 5
        done = False
        while True:
            if retries < 1:
                break
            retries -= 1
            time.sleep(5)
            messages = queue.get_messages(10, visibility_timeout=60)
            if len(messages) < 1:
                continue
            for message in messages:
                try:
                    m = json.loads(message.get_body())
                    m['return_sns_region'] = settings.SNS_REGION
                    m['return_sns_topic'] = settings.SNS_TOPIC
                    m['return_sqs_region'] = settings.SQS_REGION
                    m['return_sqs_queue'] = settings.SQS_QUEUE
                    process = subprocess.Popen(['/usr/bin/nice', '-n', '15', os.path.dirname(os.path.normpath(os.sys.modules[settings.SETTINGS_MODULE].__file__)) + '/process.py', base64.b64encode(json.dumps(m))], shell=False)
                    process.wait()
                except:
                    e = sys.exc_info()[1]
                    syslog.syslog(str(e))
                queue.delete_message(message)

    def verify_message(self, bundle):
        message = u''
        if bundle.data['Type'] == 'SubscriptionConfirmation':
            message += 'Message\n'
            message += bundle.data['Message'] + '\n'
            message += 'MessageId\n'
            message += bundle.data['MessageId'] + '\n'
            message += 'SubscribeURL\n'
            message += bundle.data['SubscribeURL'] + '\n'
            message += 'Timestamp\n'
            message += bundle.data['Timestamp'] + '\n'
            message += 'Token\n'
            message += bundle.data['Token'] + '\n'
            message += 'TopicArn\n'
            message += bundle.data['TopicArn'] + '\n'
            message += 'Type\n'
            message += bundle.data['Type'] + '\n'
        elif bundle.data['Type'] == 'Notification':
            message += 'Message\n'
            message += bundle.data['Message'] + '\n'
            message += 'MessageId\n'
            message += bundle.data['MessageId'] + '\n'
            if bundle.data['Subject'] != '':
                message += 'Subject\n'
                message += bundle.data['Subject'] + '\n'
            message += 'Timestamp\n'
            message += bundle.data['Timestamp'] + '\n'
            message += 'TopicArn\n'
            message += bundle.data['TopicArn'] + '\n'
            message += 'Type\n'
            message += bundle.data['Type'] + '\n'
        else:
            return False

        o = urlparse(bundle.data['SigningCertURL'])
        conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(o.hostname)
        conn.putrequest('GET', o.path)
        conn.endheaders()
        response = conn.getresponse()
        cert = response.read()

        # ok; attempt to use m2crypto failed, using openssl command line tool instead

        file_cert = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w', delete=False)
        file_sig = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w', delete=False)
        file_mess = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w', delete=False)

        file_cert.write(cert)
        file_sig.write(bundle.data['Signature'])
        file_mess.write(message)

        file_cert.close()
        file_sig.close()
        file_mess.close()

        # see: https://async.fi/2011/10/sns-verify-sh/
        verify_process = subprocess.Popen(['/usr/local/bin/sns-verify.sh', file_cert.name, file_sig.name, file_mess.name], shell=False)
        verify_process.wait()

        if verify_process.returncode == 0:
            return True

        return False

That process.py would be something like:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import boto.sqs
from boto.sqs.message import Message
import base64, json, os, sys, syslog

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    sys.exit('usage: %s <base64 encoded json object>' % (sys.argv[0], ))

m = json.loads(base64.b64decode(sys.argv[1]))

# http://code.activestate.com/recipes/66012-fork-a-daemon-process-on-unix/
try:
    pid = os.fork()
    if pid > 0:
        sys.exit(0)
except OSError, e:
    print >>sys.stderr, "fork #1 failed: %d (%s)" % (e.errno, e.strerror)
    sys.exit(1)

os.chdir("/")
os.setsid()
os.umask(0)

try:
    pid = os.fork()
    if pid > 0:
        sys.exit(0)
except OSError, e:
    sys.exit(1)

syslog.syslog(sys.argv[0] + ': ' + str(m))

# ...

That is, process.py gets the received (and doped) SQS message, Base64 encoded, as it's only command line argument, forks, exits and does what it's supposed to do after that on its own. Control returns to NotificationResource so the request doesn't block unnecessarily.

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S3 client-upload parameter generation with Python

# http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1434   
def S3UploadParams(bucket_name, object_name, expiry, maxsize, redirect):
    import os, boto, json, base64, hmac, hashlib
    from time import time, gmtime, strftime

    def SignS3Upload(policy_document):
        policy = base64.b64encode(policy_document)
        return base64.b64encode(hmac.new(
                boto.config.get('Credentials', 'aws_secret_access_key'),
                policy,
                hashlib.sha1
                ).digest())

    def GenerateS3PolicyString(bucket_name, object_name, expiry, maxsize, redirect):
        policy_template = '{ "expiration": "%s", "conditions": [ {"bucket": "%s"}, ["eq", "$key", "%s"], {"acl": "private"}, {"success_action_redirect": "%s"}, ["content-length-range", 0, %s] ] }'
        return policy_template % (
            strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ", gmtime(time() + expiry)),
            bucket_name,
            object_name,
            redirect,
            maxsize
            )
    
    params = {
        'key': object_name,
        'AWSAccessKeyId': boto.config.get('Credentials', 'aws_access_key_id'),
        'acl': 'private',
        'success_action_redirect': redirect,
        }

    policy = GenerateS3PolicyString(bucket_name, object_name, expiry, maxsize, redirect)
    params['policy'] = base64.b64encode(policy)

    signature = SignS3Upload(policy)
    params['signature'] = signature

    return params

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