Persisting Go using systemd

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

Find the version of systemd

• dpkg -l systemd will give you name, version, and architecture description.
• systemctl --version Print a short version string