kafka-manager debian package startup script

[Raboo]

Hi,
I've just created a debian package with sbt.
And it creates
/usr/share/kafka-manager/bin/kafka-manager
/etc/default/kafka-manager
/etc/kafka-manager/application.conf

A sane default would be to add this line to ..../bin/kafka-manager so it reads /etc/default/kafka-manager

#!/usr/bin/env bash

[ -r /etc/default/kafka-manager ] && . /etc/default/kafka-manager

Another sane default would be to add these lines to /etc/default/kafka-manager.

export PIDFILE="/var/run/kafka-manager/play.pid"
export JAVA_OPTS="-Dpidfile.path=$PIDFILE -Dconfig.file=/etc/kafka-manager/application.conf $JAVA_OPTS"
export APPLICATION_SECRET="somekey"
export ZK_HOSTS="zookeeper01:2181,zookeeper02:2181"

[Raboo]

I forgot, it's would also be nice if the package install created system user & group kafka-manager.

[nguyenvanthan]

@Raboo You can create a file in /usr/share/kafka-manager/conf/application.ini to pass the -D parameter
ex:

-Dpidfile.path=/path/pid -Dconfig.file={{ KAFKA_MANAGER_HOME }}/conf/application.conf -Dlogback.configurationFile=file:{{ KAFKA_MANAGER_HOME }}/conf/logger.xml -Dhttp.port=9000

it will be use by the script in /etc/init/kafka-manager.conf

[dazza-codes]

On Ubuntu 16.04 (possibly other distros), move from Upstart to Systemd, see e.g.

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/900389/upstart-to-systemd

(Wow this issue is old.)