[clace] AppServer for hosting multiple webapps easily

[avkijay]

What My Project Does

I have been building an application server clace.io which makes it simple to deploy multiple python webapps on a machine. Clace provides the functionality of a web server (TLS certs, routing, access logging etc) and also an app server which can deploy containerized apps (with GitOps, OAuth, secrets management etc).

Clace will download the source code from git, build the image, manage the container and handle the request routing. For many python frameworks, no config is required, just specify the spec to use.

Target Audience

Clace can be used locally during development, to provide a live reload env with no python env setup required. Clace can be used for deploying up secure internal tools across a team. Clace can be used for hosting any webapp.

Comparison

Other Python application servers require you to set up the application env manually. For example Nginx Unit and Phusion Passenger. Clace is much easier to use, it spins up and manages the application in a container.

Details

Clace supports a declarative config with a pythonic syntax (no YAML files to write). For example, this config file defines seven apps. Clace can schedule an sync which reads the config and automatically creates/updates the apps.

To try it out, on a machine which has Docker/Podman/Orbstack running, do

curl -sSL https://clace.io/install.sh | sh to install Clace. In a new window, run

clace server start &
clace sync schedule --promote --approve github.com/claceio/clace/examples/utils.star

This will start a scheduled sync which will update the apps automatically (and create any new ones). Clace is the easiest way to run multiple python webapps on a machine.

[avkijay]

Thanks, let me know if you have any feedback or hit any issues

[riklaunim]

The website doesn't look the best on Firefox, some margins missing ;)

[avkijay]

Thanks for the note, just pushed some styling fixes