Install Vault as a windows service

[Sagi Tsofan]

Hey,

Is there any way for installing Vault as a Window service?

I tried to create a Window service using this command:

sc create "Vault" binpath= "path_to_valut\vault.exe server -config path_to_vault\cfg.hcl"

But when i tries to start the service this message shows:

The Vault service failed to start due to the following error: 

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

The reason for this error is becouse each service that is installed in the services needs to implement start, stop interface otherwise it will not stared.

Any idea how to that ?

[Carlos Vitor Barros]

Hi,

Vault is not a windows service. It is just a plain Go binary. If you want to run this a Windows Service, you can use some kind of wrapper like this:

https://nssm.cc/usage

It's the same for JAVA and any other binary that was not compiled meant to have Windows Service bindings.

Regards,

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[Sagi Tsofan]

Thank you.

I wrapped the executable with NSSM process and it works great.