Atc-installer

Atc.Installer is a windows application that can be installed with the build artifact Atc.Installer.msi.

The objective with Atc.Installer is to streamline the installation and updating process for Applications, Services, and Websites in an On-Premises Windows environment, ensuring efficient management and maintenance.

Initial glimpse at the application, which comes equipped with a preloaded sample project.

The example is from the installation settings: SampleProject1-InstallationSettings.json.

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Concepts

For a system that requires multiple components in installed on a On-Premises Window machine. The Atc.Installer can managed that through an installation-settings.json file.

A realworld senerio could be, that the system you have made is:

• A frontend website build in React with a backend that use REST and maybe use SignalR.
• A backend build as WebApi in .NET that use a Windows service and a database.
• A PostgreSQL database.
• A Windows service like the "Network List Service" (netprofm).

To manage this on a Windows machine a options could be, host the frontend and backend on a IIS Server. Ensure the PostgreSQL service and "Network List Service" service is running.

For this scenario, 4 components with different tasks and settings must be defined.

Components:

Description	Type	ComponentType	HostingFrameworkType	Settings
Frontend	React	InternetInformationService	NodeJs	env.json
Backend	WebApi	InternetInformationService	DotNet7	appsettings.json
Database	PostgreSQL	PostgreSqlServer	Native	ConnectionString
Other service	WindowsService	WindowsService	NativeNoSettings	No settings

Each component can or will have pre-requisites of dependent services before it makes sens to install or run it.

• Defenitions on pre-requisites is - what is needed before installing.
• Defenitions on dependent services is - what is needed before trying running it.

Examples on pre-requisites could be:

• The fronend needs NodeJs, IIS module "URL rewrite" to be installed.
• The backend needs IIS module "Microsoft .NET Host" and "Microsoft ASP.NET Core" to be installed.

Examples on dependent services could be:

• The fronend is dependet on the backend.
• The backend is dependet on the "Network List Service" and the database.

Examples from SampleProject1

Component: FrontendGateway API	Component: PostgreSQL

MSI packages for Atc.Installer.msi

Component Types & Hosting Framework Types

Today the Atc.Installer supports a different kind of "Components" that are defined with a combination of Component Type and Hosting Framework Type.

-> And more can and will come over time.

Component Types

Component Type	Covers Application / Services
Application	Console, WinForm, Wpf or NodeJs app.
ElasticSearchServer	Elastic Search Server
InternetInformationService	WebSite (NodeJs-apps, Blazor, ASP.NET), WebApi (REST, gRPC).
PostgreSqlServer	PostgreSql Server
WindowsService	Service

Hosting Framework Types

Hosting Framework Type	Underling framework
Native
NativeNoSettings
DonNetFramework48	.NET Framework
DotNet7	.NET
DotNet8	.NET
NodeJs	NodeJs (min. v.18)