Managing and automating Linux services in DevOps environments
← Back to Linux Basics and DevOps Automations PageService automation ensures that critical applications and system services start automatically, recover from failures, and run reliably without manual intervention.
systemd is the default service manager in modern Linux
systemctl start nginx
systemctl stop nginx
systemctl restart nginx
systemctl status nginx
systemctl enable nginx
systemctl disable nginx
Services can be configured to restart automatically if they fail. This is critical for high availability systems.
[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=5