Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Common considerations across all operating systems

No matter what operating system the Gateway service daemon is running under, it will require a full configuration file, at a known location, that stores all of the settings that the service will need to know about when it starts up. The basic, Linux-flavored version of this configuration file (living in /etc/hms/hms_Gateway.conf on the target machine the service is running on) looks very much like the bare-bones example used in the Message-Queue implementation with RabbitMQ section of Chapter 16, The Artisan Gateway Service:

# HMS Artisan Gateway Service Configuration # - Used by the hms_Gateway.daemons.ArtisanGatewayDaemon class # to launch an active instance of the service logging: format: ...