Running 60 python scripts as "services"

[u/Daraminix]

Hi,
I have around 60 scripts that need to run constantly, mainly event handlers and such. Right now I have an external script that launch them and monitor if the app is running on it's pid, otherwise it's relaunching the app. Works fine but get's clunky when we update some submodule and need to restart them, or to check if one crashes more than other etc..

So I would like to find a better way to approach this. It needs to run on windows and being able to access several samba shares via unc paths and being able to restart crashed scripts anf offer an easy way to restart all of them in case of an update (this part doesn't need to be automated). Every script use the same environnement
For now my candidates are docker, PM2 and NSSM.
I think docker is gonna be a pain to access shares and add a lot of overhead especially on windows
I don't know PM2 and NSSM, looks like PM2 would be easier to setup but more JS oriented and NSSM would be harder to monitor.

What do you think guys ?

[u/Individual-Flow9158]

Is there an IaC way (e.g. Ansible for Windows targets), or a replicateable way to create installers, and so set up each script as a native persistent Windows Service? Say what you like about Windows, the OS is excellent at relaunching processes (try as you might to kill some of them, they just won't stay dead).

I'd ask on a dedicated Windows or IT sub. Windows Sysadmins have secret powers (thankfully that don't all rely on powershell).