Running ThoughtWorks Go Server as a Mac OS X Launch Daemon
ThoughtWorks Go is a continuous delivery system that has recently become open source and free to use. This guide will talk you through the steps necessary to get the Go Server up and running as a Mac OS X Launch Daemon so there is no need to log in to start the server.
So we don't tie our Go Server instance to an existing user account we should create another account just for running the server. This allows other users to help with server maintenance without us having to give out our credentials and it also prevents us from accidentally messing up our account if anything goes wrong. Let's create a new administrator account with the username build and log in.
As Go Continuous Delivery is written in Java we should install the latest version of Java if it's not already installed.