datasette-scale-to-zero

Quit Datasette if it has not received traffic for a specified time period

Some hosting providers such as Fly offer a scale to zero mechanism, where servers can shut down and will be automatically started when new traffic arrives.

This plugin can be used to configure Datasette to quit X minutes (or seconds, or hours) after the last request it received.

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

datasette install datasette-scale-to-zero

Configuration

This plugin will only take effect if it has been configured.

Add the following to your metadata.json or metadata.yml configuration file:

{
    "plugins": {
        "datasette-scale-to-zero": {
            "duration": "10m"
        }
    }
}

This will cause Datasette to quit if it has not received traffic for 10 minutes.

You can set this value using a suffix of m for minutes, h for hours or s for seconds.

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd datasette-scale-to-zero
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest