RoadRunner: an open-source high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager

RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.

RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.

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Features:

• Production-ready
• PCI DSS compliant
• PSR-7 HTTP server (file uploads, error handling, static files, hot reload, middlewares, event listeners)
• HTTPS and HTTP/2 support (including HTTP/2 Push, H2C)
• A Fully customizable server, FastCGI support
• Flexible environment configuration
• No external PHP dependencies (64bit version required), drop-in (based on Goridge)
• Load balancer, process manager and task pipeline
• Integrated metrics (Prometheus)
• Workflow engine by Temporal.io
• Works over TCP, UNIX sockets and standard pipes
• Automatic worker replacement and safe PHP process destruction
• Worker create/allocate/destroy timeouts
• Max jobs per worker
• Worker lifecycle management (controller)
  • maxMemory (graceful stop)
  • TTL (graceful stop)
  • idleTTL (graceful stop)
  • execTTL (brute, max_execution_time)
• Payload context and body
• Protocol, worker and job level error management (including PHP errors)
• Development Mode
• Integrations with Symfony, Laravel, Slim, CakePHP, Zend Expressive
• Application server for Spiral
• Included in Laravel Octane
• Automatic reloading on file changes
• Works on Windows (Unix sockets (AF_UNIX) supported on Windows 10)

Installation:

$ composer require spiral/roadrunner:v2.0 nyholm/psr7
$ ./vendor/bin/rr get-binary

For getting roadrunner binary file you can use our docker image: spiralscout/roadrunner:X.X.X (more information about image and tags can be found here).

Important notice: we strongly recommend to use a versioned tag (like 1.2.3) instead latest.

Configuration can be located in .rr.yaml file (full sample):

rpc:
  listen: tcp://127.0.0.1:6001

server:
  command: "php worker.php"

http:
  address: "0.0.0.0:8080"

logs:
  level: error

Read more in Documentation.

Example Worker:

use Spiral\RoadRunner;
use Nyholm\Psr7;

include "vendor/autoload.php";

$worker = RoadRunner\Worker::create();
$psrFactory = new Psr7\Factory\Psr17Factory();

$worker = new RoadRunner\Http\PSR7Worker($worker, $psrFactory, $psrFactory, $psrFactory);

while ($req = $worker->waitRequest()) {
    try {
        $rsp = new Psr7\Response();
        $rsp->getBody()->write('Hello world!');

        $worker->respond($rsp);
    } catch (\Throwable $e) {
        $worker->getWorker()->error((string)$e);
    }
}

Run:

To run application server:

$ ./rr serve

License:

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information. Maintained by Spiral Scout.