silver

SILVER

A cross-platform service/daemon wrapper with in-build auto-update, crash resilience and more.

Current in development. Documentation pending.

Features:

• Cross platform - Windows (Service), Mac (Launchd), Linux (systemd)
• Simple way to host a service (just write a command-line program)
• Automatic service install
• Automatic resilience and service crash recovery
• Application status monitoring with auto restart. Monitor via:
  • HTTP status ping
  • TCP socket echo ping
  • TCP open connection ping
  • File change ping
• Automatic update support with a framework supporting:
  • validation,
  • signing,
  • atomic commits
  • pre and post install actions (copy, move, rename, exec)
• Run startup tasks (again just command-line programs)
• Run tasks on a cron schedule
• Advanced task/service control:
  • Graceful shutdown
  • Start delay
  • Option to randomize task time(s) (e.g. ensure update checks don't all arrive at the same time of day)
• Lots of other stuff:
  • Logging and log rotation
  • Pid file
  • Simple text based configuration in JSON format