Procfile
This is a Go library for parsing the Procfile format.
Standard
The standard Procfile format is what you're probably most familiar with, which maps a process name to the command to run. An example of a standard Procfile might look like:
web: ./bin/web
worker: ./bin/worker
The standard Procfile format is specified in https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile.
Extended
The extended Procfile format is Empire specific and implements a subset of the attributes defined in the docker-compose.yml format. The extended Procfile format gives you more control, and allows you to configure additional settings. An example of an extended Procfile might look like:
web:
command: ./bin/web
scheduled-job:
command: ./bin/scheduled-job
cron: '0/2 * * * ? *'
Attributes
Command
Specifies the command that should be run when executing this process.
command: ./bin/web
Cron
When provided, signifies that the process is a scheduled process. The value should be a valid cron expression.
cron: * * * * * * // Run once every minute
Noservice
When provided, signifies that the process is an "operational" one off command. These processes will not get any AWS resources attached to them.
This can be used to alias a common command, or by enforcing whitelisting of commands for emp run
.
noservice: true
Ports
This allows you to define what ports to expose, and what protocol to expose them with. This works similarly to the ports:
attribute in docker-compose.yml.
ports:
# Map port 80 on the container, as port 80 on the load balancer, using the default protocol.
- "80"
# Map port 8080 on the container, as port 80 on the load balancer, using the default protocol.
- "80:8080"
# Map port 5678 on the container, as port 5678 on the load balancer, using the tcp protocol.
- "5678":
protocol: "tcp"
Environment
This allows you to set process specific environment variables. If these are set with emp set
, the value within the Procfile will take precendence.
environment:
EMPIRE_X_LOAD_BALANCER_TYPE: "alb"
See documentation about deploying an application
for a list of other supported environment variables.
ECS
This allows you to specify any ECS specific properties, like placement strategies and constraints:
ecs:
placement_constraints:
- type: memberOf
expression: "attribute:ecs.instance-type =~ t2.*"
placement_strategy:
- type: spread
field: "attribute:ecs.availability-zone"
See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task-placement.html for details.