Docker-Compose Systemd script

app@.service

[Unit]
Description=%i service
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service

[Service]
Restart=always
User=root
Group=docker
WorkingDirectory=/services/%i
# Shutdown container (if running) when unit is started
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml down
# Start container when unit is started
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up
# Stop container when unit is stopped
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml down

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Prerequisites

docker and docker-compose must be installed.

How to use

In these commands, replace appname with whatever you want to call your app/service combo.

1. Place this file in /etc/systemd/system/
2. mkdir -p /services/appname
3. Create docker-compose.yml in /services/appname
4. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
5. sudo systemctl enable app@appname
6. sudo systemctl start app@appname

To read logs

journalctl -u app@appname -f