Lesson 11: Service Automation

Managing and automating Linux services in DevOps environments

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What is Service Automation?

Service automation ensures that critical applications and system services start automatically, recover from failures, and run reliably without manual intervention.

Understanding systemd

Common systemctl Commands


systemctl start nginx
systemctl stop nginx
systemctl restart nginx
systemctl status nginx
systemctl enable nginx
systemctl disable nginx
    

Auto-Restart Services

Services can be configured to restart automatically if they fail. This is critical for high availability systems.


[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
    

Service Automation Use Cases

DevOps Best Practices

What You Learned

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