Switch production deployment to gunicorn#855
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Unless there is another helm chart living somewhere else, we're running Django's development server (manage.py runserver) in production. That is not recommended by Django and can cause serious performance issues:
Switching to gunicorn with workers solves a lot of those issues:
If we adopt this, we'll want to add the new gunicorn values to our ncats-values files, and it's strongly recommended to tune the number of workers according to the amount of CPU we have allocated. Comments in the chart show where/how to do that.
Along with this, it is highly recommended that we double check the settings not committed to this repo (deploy/configs/settings.py) and make sure Django is not being run in DEBUG mode for CI, test, or prod, and probably we don't need DJANGO_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG there either. It might be nice to use environment variables configurable from helm values for these to make it easy to set them per-maturity-level.