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How to create Spring Boot app as Ubuntu service?

  1. Create service named employee using vi command 
    sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/employee.service
  2. Copy paste the following content into the file and make sure to change the ExecStart command arguments 
    [Unit]
Description=Employee Spring Boot application service

[Service]
User=ubuntu
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -Dspring.profiles.active=prod -Dusername="admin" -Dpassword="Password129388" -jar /home/ubuntu/Employee/target/employee-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar 
ExitStatus=143

TimeoutStopSec=10
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  3. Enable the service 
    sudo systemctl enable employee
  4. Start the service 
    sudo systemctl start employee
  5. Reload system daemon 
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  6. Check the service status 
    sudo systemctl status employee
  7. Check service logs using the following command 
    sudo journalctl -u employee.service --no-pager
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eSargin commented Nov 23, 2021

thank u master

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On Ubuntu 20.04, the systemd does not recognize ExitStatus key with error message: Unknown key name 'ExitStatus' in section 'Service', ignoring.. In this case, you might be change ExitStatus to SuccessExitStatus.

- ExitStatus=143
+ SuccessExitStatus=143

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