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Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly speedy.
New in v25: Per-app worker allocation for dirty arbiters, HTTP/2 support (beta)!
pip install gunicorn
gunicorn myapp:app --workers 4
For ASGI applications (FastAPI, Starlette):
gunicorn myapp:app --worker-class asgi
Full documentation at https://gunicorn.org
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Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
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