I'm looking for a pattern to solve a problem, where you have to
discover dynamically the services you have to start.
Examples could be VPN configurations, where you discover the
configuration files and start for every file an instance of the VPN
service.
Hi Oliver,
Dynamic instantiation is a real pain point - it's an often requested
feature, but it's surprisingly hard to make it work correctly and
safely in a supervision scheme. Supervision works very well in static
environments, but dynamic discovery is at odds with the architecture.
I have a few ideas to mitigate that and help people create instanced
services. Instantiation is a planned feature of the future s6-rc v1
but it's still a ways away; I am also thinking of adding tools to help
people handle instances with regular s6, amd they may come in the near
future, but there are currently no such helpers, sorry.
--
Laurent
