Simple systemd unit for running a django app

commands

# start / stop / restart / status
systemctl start test
systemctl stop test
systemctl restart test
systemctl status test

# logs use journalctl: 

# tail the logs for unit `django`
journalctl -f -u django

django.service

[Unit]
Description=Unit for starting a basic Django app 

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/hello
ExecStart=/srv/env/bin/gunicorn hello.wsgi -b 0.0.0.0:8000

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Generally about the gist, for convenience I'd mention where the systemd files are stored:

vim /etc/systemd/system/django.service

maybe in the comment at the beginning of the file?

# vim /etc/systemd/system/django.service

[Unit]
Description=Unit for starting a basic Django app 

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
...

See also my blog post.