# Service (Systemd) RoadRunner Service Plugin provides a simple API to monitor and control processes. It is often used to manage background processes, daemons, or services that need to run continuously. The Service Plugin allows you to start, stop, and manage any number of processes, including PHP scripts, binaries, and bash/powershell scripts. ## Manage services using RoadRunner config The Service Plugin is configured using a `.rr.yaml`. Here is an example configuration: {% code title=".rr.yaml" %} ```yaml version: "3" service: meilisearch: service_name_in_log: true timeout_stop_sec: 10 remain_after_exit: true restart_sec: 1 command: "./bin/meilisearch" user: "www-data" centrifuge: service_name_in_log: true timeout_stop_sec: 10 remain_after_exit: true restart_sec: 1 command: "./bin/centrifugo --config=centrifugo.json" some_service_1: command: "php loop.php" process_num: 10 timeout_stop_sec: 10 exec_timeout: 0s remain_after_exit: true service_name_in_log: false env: - foo: "BAR" restart_sec: 1 ``` {% endcode %} The `service` section is where you define your services, with each service having its own configuration settings. ### Configuration Settings The following are the available configuration settings for each service: | Setting | Description | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **command** | The command to execute. There are no restrictions on commands. It could be a binary, a PHP file, a script, etc. | | **process\_num** | The number of processes for the command to fire. The default value is `1`. | | **exec\_timeout** | The maximum allowed time to run for the process. The default value is 0s, which means unlimited time. The timeout can be set in the form of `1h`, `1m`, or `1s` (h,m,s). | | **timeout\_stop\_sec** | The maximum allowed time to wait for the process to stop. | | **remain\_after\_exit** | If set to `true`, the process will remain after exit. For example, if you need to restart the process every 10 seconds, exec\_timeout should be set to `10s`, and `remain_after_exit` should be set to `true`. Note that if you kill the process from outside and `remain_after_exit` is `true`, the process will be restarted. | | restart\_sec | The delay between process stop and restart. The default value is 30 seconds. | | service\_name\_in\_log | If set to `true`, the service name will be shown in the log in the form `%plugin%.%service_name%`. The default value is `false`. | | env | Environment variables to pass to the underlying process from the config. | | user | Username (not UID) for the Service process. An empty value means to use the RR process user. | | Services will be started when RoadRunner starts and will be stopped when RoadRunner stops. | | ## PHP client The RoadRunner Service Plugin PHP Client Library allows you to manage processes in PHP application using the Service Plugin. You can use the library to create, start, stop, restart, and manage any number of services. ### Installation You can install the package via composer: ```bash composer require spiral/roadrunner-services ``` ### Usage To use the library, you need to create an instance of `Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Manager`: {% code title="app.php" %} ```php use Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Manager; use Spiral\Goridge\RPC\RPC; require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; $manager = new Manager(RPC::create('tcp://127.0.0.1:6001')); ``` {% endcode %} ### Create a service To create a new service, use the `create` method: {% code title="app.php" %} ```php use Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Exception\ServiceException; try { $result = $manager->create( name: 'listen-jobs', command: 'php app.php queue:listen', processNum: 3, execTimeout: 0, remainAfterExit: false, env: ['APP_ENV' => 'production'], restartSec: 30 ); if (!$result) { throw new ServiceException('Service creation failed.'); } } catch (ServiceException $e) { // handle exception } ``` {% endcode %} #### Checking Service Status To check the status of a service, use the `statuses` method: {% code title="app.php" %} ```php use Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Exception\ServiceException; try { $status = $manager->statuses(name: 'listen-jobs'); // Will return an array with statuses of every run process } catch (ServiceException $e) { // handle exception } ``` {% endcode %} #### Restarting a Service To restart a service, use the `restart` method: {% code title="app.php" %} ```php use Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Exception\ServiceException; try { $result = $manager->restart(name: 'listen-jobs'); if (!$result) { throw new ServiceException('Service restart failed.'); } } catch (ServiceException $e) { // handle exception } ``` {% endcode %} #### Terminating a Service To terminate a service, use the `terminate` method: {% code title="app.php" %} ```php use Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Exception\ServiceException; try { $result = $manager->terminate(name: 'listen-jobs'); if (!$result) { throw new ServiceException('Service termination failed.'); } } catch (ServiceException $e) { // handle exception } ``` {% endcode %} {% hint style="info" %} When you're terminating the service, RR sends the `SIGINT` signal to the underlying process(ses). {% endhint %} #### Listing All Services To get a list of all services, use the `list` method: {% code title="app.php" %} ```php use Spiral\RoadRunner\Services\Exception\ServiceException; try { $services = $manager->list(); // Will return an array with services names // ['listen-jobs', 'websocket-connection'] } catch (ServiceException $e) { // handle exception } ``` {% endcode %} ## API ### Protobuf API To make it easy to use the Service proto API in PHP, we provide a [GitHub repository](https://github.com/roadrunner-php/roadrunner-api-dto), that contains all the generated PHP DTO classes proto files, making it easy to work with these files in your PHP application. * [API](https://github.com/roadrunner-server/api/blob/master/proto/service/v1/service.proto) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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