ginit

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Service ginit

Short summary

The ginit service is the service manager for the Gecholog container. ginit monitors configuration files for changes, manages the start and restart of services and consolidates the Gecholog system log.

Options

Option	Description
-a	alias, set the name of the service
-o	specify filepath to configuration file
--validate	print config validation info (accepts stdin)
--version	print version

Example

This is how to validate a new config file in the docker context

docker exec gecholog ./ginit -o app/conf/new_ginit_config.json --validate

Configuration file

Example of the configuration file for the ginit service can be found here.

Field	Description
log_level	one of DEBUG INFO WARN ERROR
max_starts	max consecutive attempts to start child service (0 inf)
services	array with order child services are started
version	the config file conforms to this specification

For each service

Field	Description
additional_arguments	optional arguments
file	child service executable filepath
healthy_output	text string in system log to match when healthy
config_command	flag for configuration file
configuration_file	filepath to configuration file
die_promise	kills ginit (and thus container) if unable to start
disable_config_file_monitoring	toggle of configuration file monitoring
name	child service name in system log
validate_command	command to check config file