sanic/docs/sanic/deploying.md

Deploying

Deploying Sanic is made simple by the inbuilt webserver. After defining an instance of sanic.Sanic, we can call the run method with the following keyword arguments:

• host (default "127.0.0.1"): Address to host the server on.
• port (default 8000): Port to host the server on.
• debug (default False): Enables debug output (slows server).
• before_start (default None): Function or list of functions to be executed before the server starts accepting connections.
• after_start (default None): Function or list of functions to be executed after the server starts accepting connections.
• before_stop (default None): Function or list of functions to be executed when a stop signal is received before it is respected.
• after_stop (default None): Function or list of functions to be executed when all requests are complete.
• ssl (default None): SSLContext for SSL encryption of worker(s).
• sock (default None): Socket for the server to accept connections from.
• workers (default 1): Number of worker processes to spawn.
• loop (default None): An asyncio-compatible event loop. If none is specified, Sanic creates its own event loop.
• protocol (default HttpProtocol): Subclass of asyncio.protocol.

Workers

By default, Sanic listens in the main process using only one CPU core. To crank up the juice, just specify the number of workers in the run arguments.

app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=1337, workers=4)

Sanic will automatically spin up multiple processes and route traffic between them. We recommend as many workers as you have available cores.

Running via command

If you like using command line arguments, you can launch a Sanic server by executing the module. For example, if you initialized Sanic as app in a file named server.py, you could run the server like so:

python -m sanic server.app --host=0.0.0.0 --port=1337 --workers=4

With this way of running sanic, it is not necessary to invoke app.run in your Python file. If you do, make sure you wrap it so that it only executes when directly run by the interpreter.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=1337, workers=4)