Habitat windows service

Sample project to package and deploy windows service using habitat.

Service description

Basic service which writes to a file saying the service is up. This is based on the blog post on Habitat (blog post) with few modifications according to latest builds.

Contributors

Murali Valluri (mvalluri.pub@gmail.com)

Pre-Requisites

• Windows machine.
• Docker
• Habitat

Steps to run the service

# Clone the repo and cd to the repo
git clone 
cd habitat-windows-service

# Update the origin name in habitat/plan.ps1

# Enter habitat studio
hab studio enter

# Build the application
build .

# Start the service
hab start ORIGIN_NAME/testioservice

# Verify that there are no errors
Get-SupervisorLog

# Verify that service is running
Get-Service TestIOService

# Watch the log file being updated every 20 secs
Get-Content C:\hab\svc\testioservice\data\status.txt -Wait

# Stop the service using
hab stop ORIGIN_NAME/testioservice

To-Do

• Updating configurations
• Health checks
• Using environment variables
• Connecting to another service
• Uploading to Habitat origin