Persisting Go using systemd

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Zelenko edited this page Mar 25, 2018 · 2 revisions

Persisting

Start your go app when the server starts. In other word daemonize your golang program.

Systemd

cd /etc/systemd/system/

nano golang.service

[Unit]
Description=Go Server

[Service]
ExecStart=/var/www/web
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/
User=root
Group=root
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start the service

systemctl enable golang.service
systemctl start golang.service
systemctl status golang.service
systemctl stop golang.service