How to start and stop a systemd unit with another?

Solution 1:

I seem to have finally stumbled on the correct combination to get this working as desired.

In my firehose-announce.service unit I only set a BindsTo. The entire unit is:

[Unit]
Description=Firehose etcd announcer
BindsTo=firehose@%i.service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/environment
TimeoutStartSec=30s
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'sleep 1'
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "port=$(docker inspect -f '{{range $i, $e := .NetworkSettings.Ports }}{{$p := index $e 0}}{{$p.HostPort}}{{end}}' firehose-%i); echo -n \"Adding socket $COREOS_PRIVATE_IPV4:$port/tcp to /firehose/upstream/firehose-%i\"; while netstat -lnt | grep :$port >/dev/null; do etcdctl set /firehose/upstream/firehose-%i $COREOS_PRIVATE_IPV4:$port --ttl 300 >/dev/null; sleep 200; done"
RestartSec=30s
Restart=on-failure

[X-Fleet]
X-ConditionMachineOf=firehose@%i.service

This will cause the firehose-announce.service unit to stop when firehose.service does. Great. But how do we start it up again?

I reverse the dependency to be in my firehose.service unit like so:

[Unit]
Description=Firehose server
Wants=firehose-announce@%i.service
Before=firehose-announce@%i.service

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker pull firehose/server
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm -f firehose-%i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name firehose-%i -p 7474 --env-file /home/core/firehose.env firehose/server
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker rm -f firehose-%i
User=core
TimeoutStartSec=5m
TimeoutStopSec=20s
RestartSec=30s
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[X-Fleet]
X-Conflicts=firehose@*.service

This is saying that firehose.service wants firehose-announce.service to start up when it does (but don't fail if firehose-announce.service can't start). It also makes sure firehose.service starts before firehose-announce.service.

I tested this and the units now seem to stop and start together as desired.