Windows service

[chrispolley]

This is great - thanks!

My application is a blend of cloud (linux) and multi-site on-prem (mostly windows but also linux) machines. I found that I could get this installed as a service on Windows 7 and Windows 10 using cygwin's cygrunsrv, but was unable to using the built-in sc from Microsoft (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/sc-create and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/251192/how-to-create-a-windows-service-by-using-sc-exe).

I suspect this is because the code doesn't use golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc to implement the Windows service hooks.

If you have got this to run as a service on Windows workstations, could please you include tips?
Thanks!

[rawdigits]

This may just make your day..... :)

check out #3, which already works fine on Windows. It not only allows nebula to run as one, but also lets nebula register itself as a service via the command line, so you don't need a wrapper like the one from cygwin.

[rawdigits]

If anyone needs a precompiled binary for this, I'm happy to post one somewhere... If not, you just change branch and run make service bin-windows to create the service-aware version.

With the binary, you run nebula.exe -service install - currently it just points to the current directory as its working directory for the config by default, so it is "installed" wherever you run the command.

[chrispolley]

Yes, it does, thanks!
Successfully built, I will try this out.

[chrispolley]

OK, it seems to work. However, simply doing "nebula -service install" [in the config directory] doesn't work. Combining "nebula -config c:\nebula -service install" then "nebula -service start" works.

[SpaceEggs]

i use winsw to run nebula as a windows service.

[rawdigits]

merged in #3

[livid]

When installing the service, it seems the absolute path to config.yml is required.

nebula -service install -config c:\Example\Nebula\config.yml

[MADhase]

When installing the service, it seems the absolute path to config.yml is required.

nebula -service install -config c:\Example\Nebula\config.yml

The absolute path to the certificate-files is needed, too (inside the config.yml).