Add Windows installer

[tsg]

We used to provide packages for Windows, but they were pretty much manually created and the installation process was also quite complex.

This ticket is for having the proper infrastructure for building the Windows binaries and for finding a good way for running the service.

[Zelnox]

+1

[shadowcodex]

This is needed, badly... +1

[monicasarbu]

Sadly, we didn't start working on this yet. Removing the "in progress" label.

[andrewkroh]

Based on the description

"This ticket is for having the proper infrastructure for building the Windows binaries and for finding a good way for running the service"

I'd say this is complete. We have both Windows binaries and an easy way to install it as a service.

What we do not have have is a Windows installer (e.g. an MSI). If that's what we are waiting on then let's update the title.

[monicasarbu]

@andrewkroh You are right. The title is misleading. I have updated the title to "Add Windows installer".

[martinscholz83]

Hi there,
i see that this issue is open. Is this feature still from interest?

[tsg]

@maddin2016 we are still interested in providing better Windows packages, but our current packaging system builds everything from Linux via cross compilation, so I'm not sure if Wix can help. See https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/dev-tools/packer

I did, a long time ago, used wixl from msitools to build MSIs from linux, but from what I remember I hit some bugs.

[elvarb]

You could easily use inno installer to create a install package. http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

[martinscholz83]

@tsg, i thought we create the msi at build and then like the exe copy the msi into the zip?!

[dominiquearpin]

Any news for a msi package?

[anitianinc]

@tsg I've been working on wrapping winlogbeat in an msi for awhile now and I've got something I think is worthy of sharing. I've put the code with a set of instructions on how to build the msi here https://github.com/anitiansherlock/winlogbeat-msi

I'm pretty new to the dev game and quite wary of licensing issues so if there's anything I've done wrong or needs to be changed please let me know!

[dominiquearpin]

It will be great to have a msi for each beats. That could be great with tools like Puppet/Chef for deploying in large environment.

[OffColour]

I've created a Filebeat MSI generator.
Run the PS script with the URL to the filebeat zip and it'll create the MSI for you.

https://github.com/OffColour/filebeat-msi

[sasubillis]

Yes, please get MSI for each beat. We are having issues with beats installation using puppet without msi.

[OffColour]

Come on folks. I'd never touched WIX before in my life and it took me all of two days to build the MSI generator. Grab my code and build away!

[ghost]

Beats Windows MSI packages are official in v7.6.0, for example, winlogbeat

Also: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-stack-installers