One Upstart to rule them all

Question

I have a single project foo consisting of several daemons e.g. foo-web, foo-worker and for-cleanup. For each of them I have a very simple Upstart script, allowing me to use commands like service foo-web start.

What I really want is to have another Upstart script to control the whole application at once. So I can use service foo restart to relaunch the whole thing and have start on, stop on and respawn stanzas written only once for the entire project.

How can I achieve such behaviour?

Answer 1

I personally use upstart/system V scripts to manage single daemon.

For more complex operations like the one above(group few services together and start them as one service), I use monit. Upstart scripts are too low level.

Monit has more features and benefits.