[VCL-984] Add support for vcld daemon controlled by systemd

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: vcld (backend)
• Assignee: Andrew Kurth
• Reporter: Andrew Kurth
• Created: 22/Aug/16 18:49
• Updated: 02/Aug/17 17:52
• Resolved: 01/Aug/17 20:46

Description

The current distribution of VCL only includes support for controlling the vcld management node daemon using SysV. Newer Red Hat-based Linux distributions favor systemd.

It would be beneficial to include a systemd-based service script which would reside on the management node at:
/lib/systemd/system/vcld.service

The installation and upgrade scripts should be extended to detect if systemd is available and configure the daemon accordingly.