A lightweight process manager for Golang applications that keeps them alive forever and manages them from source code.
APM (Aguia Process Manager) is a process manager specifically designed for Golang applications. It helps developers keep their Go applications running continuously by managing processes directly from source code, with features for starting, stopping, restarting, and daemonizing.
Go developers and DevOps engineers who need a lightweight tool to manage the lifecycle of Go applications in development or production environments, especially those who want to run applications as persistent daemons.
Developers choose APM for its simplicity and Go-specific design, offering automatic compilation from source, daemonization with auto-restart, and remote management via HTTP API without the overhead of more generic process managers.
APM is a process manager for Golang applications.
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APM automatically compiles Go applications directly from source code repositories using 'go get', as shown in commands like 'apm bin app-name --source="github.com/..."', eliminating manual build steps.
It is designed specifically for Go apps, offering daemonization with auto-restart capabilities to keep applications alive continuously, a core feature highlighted in the description.
The tool provides straightforward CLI commands for start, stop, restart, and delete processes, making lifecycle management easy without complex configuration, as detailed in the README's command overview.
When started with the --dns flag, APM exposes an HTTP API for remote process management, allowing distributed control over applications, as mentioned under 'Managing process via HTTP'.
APM currently requires running a server with 'apm serve' to manage processes, and the README notes this will be changed in the next version, indicating a temporary but present complexity in setup.
APM is exclusively for Golang applications, so it cannot manage processes written in other languages, restricting its use in polyglot environments compared to general-purpose managers.
It lacks advanced features like built-in logging, health checks, or resource monitoring, focusing only on basic process control, which may not suffice for production needs without additional tooling.