supervisor-config-gen

supervisor-config-gen — generate a Supervisor program config from a directory

supervisor-config-gen is a single bash script with no flags, no args, no env vars. Run it from inside an app directory and it emits a Supervisor [program:x] config for that app, inferring everything from the directory itself.

Security & safety

• Generates a local plain-text config file. No network calls, no external services.
• The generated config controls what Supervisor executes and as which user — review the output before pointing supervisord at it, same as reviewing any generated shell/config artifact.
• It overwrites -supervisor.conf in the current directory without prompting if one already exists. Don't run it in a directory where that file has manual edits you want to keep.
• The script does not sandbox or validate the target run.sh — it just references its path. Make sure run.sh is what you expect before Supervisor runs it.

When to use

• The user wants a Supervisor program config for an app directory that has a run.sh entrypoint (a startup script Supervisor should manage).
• The user says "generate a supervisor config for this app" / "supervisorize this" / "make a supervisord conf".

When NOT to use

• The app has no run.sh — the generated command= will point at a script that doesn't exist. Add/rename a run.sh entrypoint first, or hand-write the config.
• You need non-default supervisord settings (custom numprocs, environment vars, non-TERM stop signal, different log paths/rotation, etc.) — this tool has no flags to control those. Generate the base config, then hand-edit it.
• You need configs for multiple apps at once — the tool is single-directory, single-invocation.

Inputs → output

There is nothing to pass in. The script derives every field from ambient state at run time:

Everything else (numprocs=1, stopsignal=TERM, stopwaitsecs=10, stopasgroup=true, killasgroup=true, autostart=true, autorestart=true, redirect_stderr=true, redirect_stdout=true, 50MB log rotation with 10 backups on stdout) is fixed/hardcoded — not configurable via flags.

Example invocation

Given an app directory shitty-app/ containing main.py and run.sh:

cd shitty-app
supervisor-config-gen
# Generated shitty-app-supervisor.conf

Resulting shitty-app-supervisor.conf (paths reflect the actual invoking user/home/cwd):

[program:shitty-app]
command=/home/not-root/shitty-app/run.sh
directory=/home/not-root/shitty-app
process_name=%(program_name)s
numprocs=1
user=not-root

stopsignal=TERM
stopwaitsecs=10
stopasgroup=true

killasgroup=true

autostart=true
autorestart=true

redirect_stderr=true
redirect_stdout=true

stdout_logfile=/home/not-root/logs/supervisord/%(program_name)s-out.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=50MB
stdout_logfile_backups=10
stderr_logfile=/home/not-root/logs/supervisord/%(program_name)s-err.log
stderr_logfile_maxbytes=50MB

For install steps and the full field reference, see references/setup.md.