How can I control a whole Supervisor group at once?

Solution 1:

Ah, you use supervisorctl start groupname:*

I discovered this by typing just supervisorctl start and being told:

Error: start requires a process name
start <name>        Start a process
start <gname>:*     Start all processes in a group
start <name> <name> Start multiple processes or groups
start all       Start all processes

...similarly for stop and restart.