The Getting Started pages (https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/getting-started.html) say:
Currently, installing NiFi as a service is supported only for Linux and Mac OSX users. But on the development quickstart (https://nifi.apache.org/quickstart.html): install: (available in Linux only, not OSX): installs NiFi as a service that can then be controlled via service nifi start, service nifi stop, service nifi status. For Windows users, there exist several scripts. Two questions about this: 1) Is MacOs (OSX) supported running NiFi as a background service or not? 2) Are there plans to support Windows (running NiFi as a Windows service). I do like the installation of Windows services as Jenkins does: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+as+a+Windows+service Also Karaf has wrapper that support a wide variarity of operation systems: https://karaf.apache.org/manual/latest/wrapper I also found some generic library where some solutions are based on: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/index.html
