CoreDaemon 1.2.0

About

This package will help you produce binaries capable of installing init.d services of themselves on the target machine. The goal of writing this code, was to ease the deployment of dotnetcore web applications on linux hosts from Cicd pipelines.

Get the library

This library is available on NuGet.org, so you can add library to your dotnet core application via .Net Cli using:

	dotnet add package CoreDaemon 

Or Visualstudio Package Manager, using

	Install-Package CoreDaemon 

Or by directly adding reference to .csproj file:

	<PackageReference Include="CoreDaemon" />

Usage

To use the library, You would add the package in your project. Then at the Main Entry (Program.cs → Main(args[])) add call the library's entry:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
            Damien.Summon().ExecuteCommands(args);

           // Start your sync (blocking) service here
} 

The library will check input commands and install or uninstall a service on running machine according to the input arguments.

The commands would be

• daemon install
• daemon uninstall
• daemon help

Check if CoreDaemon Handled the input commands

Most probably you would prefer your service not being started when the binary is called by daemon arguments. For this you can simply check the result of calling the Damien execution:

static void Main(string[] args)
 {
	if (Damien.Summon().ExecuteCommands(args) == ExecutionResult.NoActionTaken)
	{
	    // Start sync (blocking) service here 
	}

 } 

You can specify the default way of creating/removing daemons by using Damien.UseInitRc() to create service in /etc/init.d or using UseServiceUnitFile() to create service in /etc/systemd/system. This will be a default and can be overridden when using the application (Next section).

Logging

You can use any implementation of Microsoft's ILogger by calling Damien.UseLogger(logger), where logger is your ILogger instance.

     var logger = new ConsoleLogger();

     Damien.Summon().UseLogger(logger);

How daemon gets installed/uninstalled

By adding the code mentioned above, to your application entry, when your applicatin gets started by CoreDaemon commands, It will handle the commands and will install or uninstall a service (on linux's init.d). CoreDaemon commands are:

• daemon install
• daemon uninstall
• daemon help

For example if your application name is Example, after it has been built, you would call

	sudo ./Example daemon install

For install scripts, cicds and etc. You can add 'init-rc' or 'unit' argument to both install and uninstall commands. These arguments will override the default installation method. init-rc will install/uninstall the select-case script in /etc/init.d/service-name, and unit will
install/uninstall the service unit file in /etc/systemd/system/servce-name.service.

Limitations

• For now, the library only woks on Linux.
• The code has been tested on Ubuntu
• Since CoreDaemon writes on System files, calling your application with daemon commands must be elevated. (use sudo or call by root user)

Regards; Mani