dcsg is a command-line utility for Linux that generates systemd services for Docker Compose projects.

If you have one or more docker compose projects running on your server you might want create a systemd service for each of them.

And dcsg is here to help you with just that. Quickly create systemd services from docker-compose files.

dcsg <action> [<path-to-a-docker-compose-file>] [<docker-compose-project-name]>

Register a Docker Compose project as a systemd service:

dcsg install docker-compose.yml

Uninstall the systemd service for the given Docker Compose project:

dcsg uninstall docker-compose.yml

Show the available actions and arguments:

dcsg help

The help for a specific action:

dcsg install --help

dcsg doesn't do much.

For the install action dcsg creates a systemd service (see: installer.go):

1. Create a systemd service definition in /etc/systemd/system/<project-name>.service
2. Execute systemctl daemon-reload, enable and start

The name of the service created will be the project name of your docker-compose project.

For the uninstall action dcsg remove the systemd service it created earlier (see: uninstaller.go):

1. Execute a systemctl stop and disable for the docker-compose service
2. Delete the systemd service definition from /etc/systemd/system/<project-name>.service
3. Execute sytemctl daemon-reload

You can download pre-built binaries for Linux (64bit, ARM 5, ARM 6 and ARM 7) from github.com » andreaskoch » dcsg » releases:

• Download for dcsg (Linux 64bit)
• Download for dcsg (Linux ARM5)
• Download for dcsg (Linux ARM6)
• Download for dcsg (Linux ARM7)

curl -L https://github.com/andreaskoch/dcsg/releases/download/v0.4.0/dcsg_linux_amd64 > /usr/local/bin/dcsg
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dcsg

If you have go installed you can use go get to fetch and build dcsg:

go get github.com/andreaskoch/dcsg

To cross-compile dcsg for the different Linux architectures (AMD64, ARM5, ARM6 and ARM7) you can use the crosscompile action of the make script:

go get github.com/andreaskoch/dcsg
cd $GOPATH/github.com/andreaskoch/dcsg
make crosscompile

»dcsg« is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.