Set up loading of plugins.

Framework/Core/PluginManager.cs

@@ -59,20 +59,4 @@
             }
         }
     }
-
-    public interface IProjectPlugin
-    {
-        void Announce();
-        void Decommission();
-    }
-
-    public interface IHasLogPrefix
-    {
-        string LogPrefix { get; }
-    }
-
-    public interface IHasMetadata
-    {
-        void AddMetadata(IAddMetadata metadata);
-    }
 }

Framework/Core/ProjectPlugin.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+using Utils;
+
+namespace Core
+{
+    public interface IProjectPlugin
+    {
+        void Announce();
+        void Decommission();
+    }
+
+    public interface IHasLogPrefix
+    {
+        string LogPrefix { get; }
+    }
+
+    public interface IHasMetadata
+    {
+        void AddMetadata(IAddMetadata metadata);
+    }
+
+    public static class ProjectPlugin
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// On some platforms and in some cases, not all required plugin assemblies are automatically loaded into the app domain.
+        /// In this case, the runtime needs a slight push to load it before the EntryPoint class is instantiated.
+        /// Used ProjectPlugin.Load<>() before you create an EntryPoint to ensure all plugins you want to use are loaded.
+        /// </summary>
+        public static void Load<T>() where T : IProjectPlugin
+        {
+            var type = typeof(T);
+            FrameworkAssert.That(type != null, $"Unable to load plugin.");
+        }
+    }
+}

Tests/CodexContinuousTests/EntryPointFactory.cs

@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ namespace ContinuousTests
 {
     public class EntryPointFactory
     {
+        public EntryPointFactory()
+        {
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<CodexPlugin.CodexPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<CodexContractsPlugin.CodexContractsPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<GethPlugin.GethPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<MetricsPlugin.MetricsPlugin>();
+        }
+
         public EntryPoint CreateEntryPoint(string kubeConfigFile, string dataFilePath, string customNamespace, ILog log)
         {
             var kubeConfig = GetKubeConfig(kubeConfigFile);

Tests/CodexTests/CodexDistTest.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 using CodexContractsPlugin;
 using CodexPlugin;
+using Core;
 using DistTestCore;
 using DistTestCore.Helpers;
 using GethPlugin;
 using NUnit.Framework.Constraints;
-using Utils;
 
 namespace Tests
 {
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ namespace Tests
     {
         private readonly List<ICodexNode> onlineCodexNodes = new List<ICodexNode>();
 
+        public CodexDistTest()
+        {
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<CodexPlugin.CodexPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<CodexContractsPlugin.CodexContractsPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<GethPlugin.GethPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<MetricsPlugin.MetricsPlugin>();
+        }
+
         public ICodexNode AddCodex()
         {
             return AddCodex(s => { });

Tools/CodexNetDeployer/Deployer.cs

@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ namespace CodexNetDeployer
         {
             this.config = config;
             peerConnectivityChecker = new PeerConnectivityChecker();
-            
+
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<CodexPlugin.CodexPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<CodexContractsPlugin.CodexContractsPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<GethPlugin.GethPlugin>();
+            ProjectPlugin.Load<MetricsPlugin.MetricsPlugin>();
             entryPoint = CreateEntryPoint(new NullLog());
         }
 
@@ -27,8 +31,6 @@ namespace CodexNetDeployer
             var ep = CreateEntryPoint(new ConsoleLog());
 
             Log("Using plugins:" + Environment.NewLine);
-            ep.Announce();
-            Log("");
             var metadata = ep.GetPluginMetadata();
             foreach (var entry in metadata)
             {