Autostart mock services after server reboot

[saravanan30erd]

@255kb The mock services running by mockoon-cli were stopped after server reboot.

Is it possible to enable auto-start option for this mock services so it will start automatically after server reboot ?

[255kb]

This is not implemented and I am not sure it's something that we should add in Mockoon CLI directly.
However, you have two options:

• rely on PM2 startup command: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/startup/ (Mockoon CLI is using PM2 to manage the processes)
• use a crontab or upstart script: https://askubuntu.com/questions/228304/how-do-i-run-a-script-at-start-up

I guess this should be enough to solve your use case 😃

[saravanan30erd]

Hi @255kb

I think it will be very important feature and we should consider to add it directly in mockoon-cli.

I explain a scenario, lets say we have 100 api microservices in a environment and we eventually want 100 mock services(for those 100 microservices) running in mock-cli. Assume we have many environments such as Dev, stage, pre-prod and prod. The stage, pre-prod and production env will use the real api services, and we may want to use Mock server(mockoon-cli) for Dev environment which mean all frontend applications in dev will consume mock services (100) from mockoon-cli server. In these cases, we want to run all those mock services 24X7. Practically those mock services running in mockoon-cli should always run (survive reboot, etc,..).

[saravanan30erd]

one more point, lets take enterprise product ReadyAPI Virtserver which is server side component where we can run the mock services remotely(same as mockoon-cli) so applications can consume the mock services. Virtserver includes these features and runs the deployed mock services 24X7. I think including this feature will improve mockoon-cli as standalone server component.

[255kb]

I understand your point. But I still think that adding an upstart script or even using pm2's commands should be enough and do the trick without adding this feature to Mockoon CLI core.