Spring Boot application as a Service

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How to configure nicely Spring Boot application packaged as executable jar as a Service in the Linux system  Is this recommended approach  or should I convert this app to war and install it into Tomcat  Currently  I can run Spring boot application from the screen session  which is nice but requires manual start after a server reboot  What I m looking for is general advice direction or sample init d the script  if my approach with executable jar is proper

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Are you using Maven  Then you should try the AppAssembler Plugin   The Application Assembler Plugin is a Maven plugin for generating scripts for starting java applications      All artifacts  dependencies   the artifact from the project  are added to the classpath in the generated bin scripts  Supported platforms  Unix-variants Windows NT  Windows 9x is NOT supported  Java Service Wrapper  JSW   See  http   mojo codehaus org appassembler appassembler-maven-plugin index html

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You could also use supervisord which is a very handy daemon  which can be used to easily control services  These services are defined by simple configuration files defining what to execute with which user in which directory and so forth  there are a zillion options  supervisord has a very simple syntax  so it makes a very good alternative to writing SysV init scripts   Here a simple supervisord configuration file for the program you are trying to run control   put this into  etc supervisor conf d yourapp conf    etc supervisor conf d yourapp conf   program yourapp  command  usr bin java -jar  path to application jar user usertorun autostart true autorestart true startsecs 10 startretries 3 stdout logfile  var log yourapp-stdout log stderr logfile  var log yourapp-stderr log   To control the application you would need to execute supervisorctl  which will present you with a prompt where you could start  stop  status yourapp   CLI    sudo supervisorctl yourapp             RUNNING   pid 123123  uptime 1 day  15 00 00 supervisor gt  stop yourapp supervisor gt  start yourapp   If the supervisord daemon is already running and you ve added the configuration for your serivce without restarting the daemon you can simply do a reread and update command in the supervisorctl shell   This really gives you all the flexibilites you would have using SysV Init scripts  but easy to use and control  Take a look at the documentation

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I am trying to make springboot applications that are presented as a  init d  style shell script with a compressed java application tacked on the end  By symlinking these scripts from  etc init d spring-app to  opt spring-app jar and chmod ing the jar to be executable it is possible to make   etc init d spring-app start    etc init d spring-app stop  and other possibilities like status work  Presumably  as the init d style scripts from springboot look that they have the neccessary magic strings   like   Default-Start      2 3 4 5  chkconfig would be able to add it as a  service   But I wanted to get it to work with systemd  To make this work I tried many of the recipies in the other answers above but none of them worked for me on Centos 7 2 with Springboot 1 3  Mostly they would start the service but not be able to track the pid  In the end I found the following did work for me  when the  etc init d link was in place also   A file similar to the one below should be installed as  usr lib systemd system spring-app service   Unit  Description My loverly application After syslog target    Service  Type forking PIDFile  var run spring-app spring-app pid ExecStart  etc init d spring-app start SuccessExitStatus 143   Install  WantedBy multi-user target

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I just got around to doing this myself  so the following is where I am so far in terms of a CentOS init d service controller script  It s working quite nicely so far  but I m no leet Bash hacker  so I m sure there s room for improvement  so thoughts on improving it are welcome   First of all  I have a short config script  data svcmgmt conf my-spring-boot-api sh for each service  which sets up environment variables      bin bash export JAVA HOME  opt jdk1 8 0 05 jre export APP HOME  data apps my-spring-boot-api export APP NAME my-spring-boot-api export APP PORT 40001   I m using CentOS  so to ensure that my services are started after a server restart  I have a service control script in  etc init d my-spring-boot-api      bin bash   description  my-spring-boot-api start stop restart   processname  my-spring-boot-api   chkconfig  234 20 80     data svcmgmt conf my-spring-boot-api sh   data svcmgmt bin spring-boot-service sh  1  exit 0   As you can see  that calls the initial config script to set up environment variables and then calls a shared script which I use for restarting all of my Spring Boot services  That shared script is where the meat of it all can be found      bin bash  echo  Service   APP NAME  -   1    echo      JAVA HOME  JAVA HOME  echo      APP HOME  APP HOME  echo      APP NAME  APP NAME  echo      APP PORT  APP PORT   function start       if pkill -0 -f  APP NAME jar  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1     then         echo  Service   APP NAME  is already running  Ignoring startup request           exit 1     fi     echo  Starting application         nohup  JAVA HOME bin java -jar  APP HOME  APP NAME jar           --spring config location file  APP HOME config               lt   dev null  gt   APP HOME logs app log 2 gt  amp 1  amp     function stop       if   pkill -0 -f  APP NAME jar  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1     then         echo  Service   APP NAME  is not running  Ignoring shutdown request           exit 1     fi        First  we will try to trigger a controlled shutdown using        spring-boot-actuator     curl -X POST http   localhost  APP PORT shutdown  lt   dev null  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1        Wait until the server process has shut down     attempts 0     while pkill -0 -f  APP NAME jar  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1     do         attempts    attempts   1          if    attempts -gt 5           then               We have waited too long  Kill it              pkill -f  APP NAME jar  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1         fi         sleep 1s     done    case  1 in start      start    stop      stop    restart      stop     start    esac exit 0   When stopping  it will attempt to use Spring Boot Actuator to perform a controlled shutdown  However  in case Actuator is not configured or fails to shut down within a reasonable time frame  I give it 5 seconds  which is a bit short really   the process will be killed   Also  the script makes the assumption that the java process running the appllication will be the only one with  my-spring-boot-api jar  in the text of the process details  This is a safe assumption in my environment and means that I don t need to keep track of PIDs

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AS A WINDOWS SERVICE  If you want this to run in windows machine download the winsw exe from    http   repo jenkins-ci org releases com sun winsw winsw 2 1 2    After that rename it to jar filename  eg  your-app jar   winsw exe - gt  your-app exe   Now create an xml file your-app xml and copy the following content to that   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt service gt        lt id gt your-app lt  id gt        lt name gt your-app lt  name gt        lt description gt your-app as a Windows Service lt  description gt        lt executable gt java lt  executable gt        lt arguments gt -jar  your-app jar  lt  arguments gt        lt logmode gt rotate lt  logmode gt   lt  service gt    Make sure that the exe and xml along with jar in a same folder   After this open command prompt in Administrator previlege and install it to the windows service   your-app exe install eg - gt  D  Springboot your-app exe install   If it fails with   Error  Registry key  Software JavaSoft Java Runtime Environment  CurrentVersion  has value  1 8   but  1 7  is required    Then try the following    Delete java exe  javaw exe and javaws exe from C  Windows System32   thats it       To uninstall the service in windows  your-app exe uninstall   For see run stop service   win r and type Administrative tools then select the service from that  Then right click choose the option - run   stop

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It can be done using Systemd service in Ubuntu   Unit  Description A Spring Boot application After syslog target   Service  User baeldung ExecStart  path to your-app jar SuccessExitStatus 143   Install   WantedBy multi-user target   You can follow this link for more elaborated description and different ways to do so  http   www baeldung com spring-boot-app-as-a-service

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Create a script with name your-app service  rest-app service   We should place this script in  etc systemd system directory  Here is the sample content of the script   Unit  Description Spring Boot REST Application After syslog target   Service  User javadevjournal ExecStart  var rest-app restdemo jar SuccessExitStatus 200   Install  WantedBy multi-user target   Next    service rest-app start   References  enter link description here

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I know this is an older question  but I wanted to present yet another way which is the appassembler-maven-plugin   Here s the relevant part from my POM that includes a lot of additional option values we found useful    lt plugin gt       lt groupId gt org codehaus mojo lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt appassembler-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt       lt configuration gt           lt generateRepository gt true lt  generateRepository gt           lt repositoryLayout gt flat lt  repositoryLayout gt           lt useWildcardClassPath gt true lt  useWildcardClassPath gt           lt includeConfigurationDirectoryInClasspath gt true lt  includeConfigurationDirectoryInClasspath gt           lt configurationDirectory gt config lt  configurationDirectory gt           lt target gt   project build directory  lt  target gt           lt daemons gt               lt daemon gt                   lt id gt   installer-target  lt  id gt                   lt mainClass gt   mainClass  lt  mainClass gt                   lt commandLineArguments gt                       lt commandLineArgument gt --spring profiles active dev lt  commandLineArgument gt                       lt commandLineArgument gt --logging config   rpmInstallLocation  config   installer-target -logback xml lt  commandLineArgument gt                   lt  commandLineArguments gt                   lt platforms gt                       lt platform gt jsw lt  platform gt                   lt  platforms gt                   lt generatorConfigurations gt                       lt generatorConfiguration gt                           lt generator gt jsw lt  generator gt                           lt includes gt                               lt include gt linux-x86-64 lt  include gt                           lt  includes gt                           lt configuration gt                               lt property gt                                   lt name gt wrapper logfile lt  name gt                                   lt value gt logs   installer-target -wrapper log lt  value gt                               lt  property gt                               lt property gt                                   lt name gt wrapper logfile maxsize lt  name gt                                   lt value gt 5m lt  value gt                               lt  property gt                               lt property gt                                   lt name gt run as user envvar lt  name gt                                   lt value gt   serviceUser  lt  value gt                               lt  property gt                               lt property gt                                   lt name gt wrapper on exit default lt  name gt                                   lt value gt RESTART lt  value gt                               lt  property gt                           lt  configuration gt                       lt  generatorConfiguration gt                   lt  generatorConfigurations gt                   lt jvmSettings gt                       lt initialMemorySize gt 256M lt  initialMemorySize gt                       lt maxMemorySize gt 1024M lt  maxMemorySize gt                       lt extraArguments gt                           lt extraArgument gt -server lt  extraArgument gt                       lt  extraArguments gt                   lt  jvmSettings gt               lt  daemon gt           lt  daemons gt       lt  configuration gt       lt executions gt           lt execution gt               lt id gt generate-jsw-scripts lt  id gt               lt phase gt package lt  phase gt               lt goals gt                   lt goal gt generate-daemons lt  goal gt               lt  goals gt           lt  execution gt       lt  executions gt   lt  plugin gt

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Following up on Chad s excellent answer  if you get an error of  Error  Could not find or load main class  - and you spend a couple hours trying to troubleshoot it  whether your executing a shell script that starts your java app or starting it from systemd itself - and you know your classpath is 100  correct  e g  manually running the shell script works as well as running what you have in systemd execstart   Be sure you re running things as the correct user   In my case  I had tried different users  after quite a while of troubleshooting - i finally had a hunch  put root as the user - voila  the app started correctly   After determining it was a wrong user issue  I chown -R user user the folder and subfolders and the app ran correctly as the specified user and group so no longer needed to run it as root  bad security

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The following configuration is required in build gradle file in Spring Boot projects   build gradle  jar       baseName    your-app      version   version    springBoot       buildInfo       executable   true        mainClass    com shunya App         executable   true    This is required to make fully executable jar on unix system  Centos and Ubuntu   Create a  conf file  If you want to configure custom JVM properties or Spring Boot application run arguments  then you can create a  conf file with the same name as the Spring Boot application name and place it parallel to jar file   Considering that your-app jar is the name of your Spring Boot application  then you can create the following file   JAVA OPTS  -Xms64m -Xmx64m  RUN ARGS --spring profiles active prod LOG FOLDER  custom log folder   This configuration will set 64 MB ram for the Spring Boot application and activate prod profile   Create a new user in linux  For enhanced security we must create a specific user to run the Spring Boot application as a service   Create a new user  sudo useradd -s  sbin nologin springboot   On Ubuntu   Debian  modify the above command as follow   sudo useradd -s  usr sbin nologin springboot   Set password  sudo passwd springboot   Make springboot owner of the executable file  chown springboot springboot your-app jar   Prevent the modification of jar file  chmod 500 your-app jar   This will configure jar   s permissions so that it can not be written and can only be read or executed by its owner springboot   You can optionally make your jar file as immutable using the change attribute  chattr  command   sudo chattr  i your-app jar   Appropriate permissions should be set for the corresponding  conf file as well   conf requires just read access  Octal 400  instead of read   execute  Octal 500  access  chmod 400 your-app conf   Create Systemd service   etc systemd system your-app service   Unit  Description Your app description After syslog target   Service  User springboot ExecStart  var myapp your-app jar SuccessExitStatus 143   Install  WantedBy multi-user target   Automatically restart process if it gets killed by OS  Append the below two attributes  Restart and RestartSec  to automatically restart the process on failure    etc systemd system your-app service   Service  User springboot ExecStart  var myapp your-app jar SuccessExitStatus 143 Restart always RestartSec 30   The change will make Spring Boot application restart in case of failure with a delay of 30 seconds  If you stop the service using systemctl command then restart will not happen   Schedule service at system startup  To flag the application to start automatically on system boot  use the following command   Enable Spring Boot application at system startup  sudo systemctl enable your-app service   Start an Stop the Service  systemctl can be used in Ubuntu 16 04 LTS and 18 04 LTS to start and stop the process   Start the process  sudo systemctl start your-app   Stop the process  sudo systemctl stop your-app   References  https   docs spring io spring-boot docs current reference html deployment-install html

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In systemd unit files you can set environment variables directory or through an EnvironmentFile  I would propose doing things this way since it seems to be the least amount of friction   Sample unit file    cat  etc systemd system hello-world service  Unit  Description Hello World Service After systend-user-sessions service   Service  EnvironmentFile  etc sysconfig hello-world Type simple ExecStart  usr bin java     hello-world jar   Then setup a file under  etc sysconfig hello-world which includes uppercase names of your Spring Boot variables  For example  a variable called server port would follow the form SERVER PORT as an environment variable     cat  etc sysconfig hello-world SERVER PORT 8081   The mechanism being exploited here is that Spring Boot applications will take the list of properties and then translate them  making everything uppercase  and replacing dots with underscores  Once the Spring Boot app goes through this process  it then looks for environment variables that match  and uses any found accordingly   This is highlighted in more detail in this SO Q amp A titled  How to set a Spring Boot property with an underscore in its name via Environment Variables   References   Part IV  Spring Boot features - 24  Externalized Configuration

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If you want to use Spring Boot 1 2 5 with Spring Boot Maven Plugin 1 3 0 M2  here s out solution    lt parent gt       lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-parent lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 1 2 5 RELEASE lt  version gt   lt  parent gt    lt build gt       lt plugins gt           lt plugin gt               lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-boot-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 3 0 M2 lt  version gt               lt configuration gt                   lt executable gt true lt  executable gt               lt  configuration gt           lt  plugin gt       lt  plugins gt   lt  build gt    lt pluginRepositories gt       lt pluginRepository gt           lt id gt spring-libs-milestones lt  id gt           lt url gt http   repo spring io libs-milestone lt  url gt       lt  pluginRepository gt    lt  pluginRepositories gt    Then compile as ususal  mvn clean package  make a symlink ln -s      myapp jar  etc init d myapp  make it executable chmod  x  etc init d myapp and start it service myapp start  with Ubuntu Server

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Here is a script that deploys an executable jar as a systemd service   It creates a user for the service and the  service file  and place the jar file under  var  and makes some basic lock down of privileges      bin bash    Argument  The jar file to deploy APPSRCPATH  1    Argument  application name  no spaces please  used as folder name under  var APPNAME  2    Argument  the user to use when running the application  may exist  created if not exists APPUSER  3    Help text USAGE   Usage  sudo  0  lt jar-file gt   lt app-name gt   lt runtime-user gt  If an app with the name  lt app-name gt  already exist  it is stopped and deleted  If the  lt runtime-user gt  does not already exist  it is created       Check that we are root if      root       whoami      then     echo  Must be root  Please use e g  sudo      echo   USAGE      exit fi    Check arguments if        -ne 3 -o    APPSRCPATH    0 -o    APPNAME    0 -o    APPUSER    0    then     echo  Incorrect number of parameters       echo   USAGE      exit fi  if     -f  APPSRCPATH    then     echo  Can t find jar file  APPSRCPATH      echo   USAGE      exit fi    Infered values APPFILENAME   basename  APPSRCPATH  APPFOLDER  var javaapps  APPNAME APPDESTPATH  APPFOLDER  APPFILENAME    Stop the service if it already exist and is running systemctl stop  APPNAME  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1    Create the app folder  deleting any previous content rm -fr  APPFOLDER mkdir -p  APPFOLDER    Create the user if it does not exist if id   APPUSER   gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1  then     echo  Using existing user  APPUSER  else     adduser --disabled-password --gecos     APPUSER     echo  Created user  APPUSER  fi    Place app in app folder  setting owner and rights cp  APPSRCPATH  APPDESTPATH chown  APPUSER  APPDESTPATH chmod 500  APPDESTPATH echo  Added or updated the  APPDESTPATH file     Create the  service file used by systemd echo    Unit  Description  APPNAME After syslog target  Service  User  APPUSER ExecStart  usr bin java -jar  APPDESTPATH SuccessExitStatus 143  Install  WantedBy multi-user target    gt   etc systemd system  APPNAME service echo  Created the  etc systemd system  APPNAME service file     Reload the daemon systemctl daemon-reload    Start the deployed app systemctl start  APPNAME systemctl status  APPNAME   Example

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I ended up doing systemd service for WAR JAR layout   I m calling java -jar because its more flexible  Tried also putting the ExecStart spring-mvc war but even though is executable  I got  Exec format error   Anyway these days  systemd is present on all distros  and offers a nice solution to redirect logs syserr is important when you service doesn t even start log4j file location will be empty        cat  etc systemd system spring-mvc service   Unit  Description Spring MVC Java Service   Service  User spring-mvc   The configuration file application properties should be here  WorkingDirectory  usr local spring-mvc     Run ExecStartPre with root-permissions PermissionsStartOnly true  ExecStartPre - bin mkdir -p  var log spring-mvc   ExecStartPre  bin chown -R spring-mvc syslog  var log spring-mvc ExecStartPre  bin chmod -R 775  var log spring-mvc     https   www freedesktop org software systemd man systemd service html ExecStart  ExecStart  usr bin java           -Dlog4j configurationFile log4j2-spring xml           -DLog4jContextSelector org apache logging log4j core async AsyncLoggerContextSelector           -Dspring profiles active dev           -Denvironment-type dev           -XX  UseConcMarkSweepGC           -XX CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction 80           -XX NewSize 756m           -XX MetaspaceSize 256m           -Dsun net inetaddr ttl 5           -Xloggc  var log spring-mvc gc log           -verbose gc           -verbosegc           -XX  DisableExplicitGC           -XX  PrintGCDetails           -XX  PrintGCDateStamps           -XX  PreserveFramePointer           -XX  StartAttachListener           -Xms1024m           -Xmx1024m           -XX  HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError           -jar spring-mvc war  SuccessExitStatus 143 StandardOutput journal StandardError journal   KillSignal SIGINT TimeoutStopSec 20 Restart always RestartSec 5 StartLimitInterval 0 StartLimitBurst 10  LimitNOFILE 500000 LimitNPROC 500000   https   www freedesktop org software systemd man systemd exec html LimitCPU   LimitCPU   LimitFSIZE   LimitDATA   LimitSTACK   LimitCORE   LimitRSS   LimitNOFILE   LimitAS   LimitNPROC   LimitMEMLOCK   LimitLOCKS   LimitSIGPENDING   LimitMSGQUEUE   LimitNICE   LimitRTPRIO   LimitRTTIME     SyslogIdentifier spring-mvc   Install  WantedBy multi-user target     https   www freedesktop org software systemd man journalctl html  check logs --- journalctl -u spring-mvc -f -o cat   rsyslog - redirect syslog input from app to specific folder file  cat  etc rsyslog d 30-spring-mvc conf  if  programname     spring-mvc  then  var log spring-mvc spring-mvc log  amp  stop   logrotate  cat  etc logrotate d spring-mvc conf   var log spring-mvc spring-mvc log       daily     rotate 30     maxage 30     copytruncate     missingok     notifempty     compress     dateext     dateformat   Y- m- d  H- M     delaycompress     create 644 spring-mvc syslog     su spring-mvc syslog     logrotate gc  cat  etc logrotate d spring-mvc-gc conf   var log spring-mvc gc log       daily     rotate 30     maxage 30     copytruncate     missingok     notifempty     compress     dateext     dateformat   Y- m- d  H- M     delaycompress     create 644 spring-mvc syslog     su spring-mvc syslog

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My SysVInit script for Centos 6   RHEL  not ideal yet   This script requires ApplicationPidListener   Source of  etc init d app     bin sh     app Spring Boot Application      chkconfig    345 20 80   description  App Service                   BEGIN INIT INFO   Provides  App   Required-Start   local fs  network   Required-Stop   local fs  network   Default-Start  3 4 5    Default-Stop  0 1 2 6   Short-Description  Application   Description            END INIT INFO    Source function library     etc rc d init d functions    Source networking configuration     etc sysconfig network  exec   usr bin java  prog  app  app home  home  prog  user  prog    -e  etc sysconfig  prog    amp  amp     etc sysconfig  prog  lockfile  var lock subsys  prog     pid  app home  prog pid  start            -x  exec      exit 5       -f  config      exit 6       Check that networking is up          NETWORKING     no     amp  amp  exit 1     echo -n   Starting  prog        cd  app home     daemon --check  prog --pidfile  pid --user  user  exec  app args  amp      retval        echo        retval -eq 0    amp  amp  touch  lockfile     return  retval    stop         echo -n   Stopping  prog        killproc -p  pid  prog     retval           retval -eq 0    amp  amp  rm -f  lockfile     return  retval    restart         stop     start    reload         restart    force reload         restart    rh status         status -p  pid  prog    rh status q         rh status  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1    case   1  in     start          rh status q  amp  amp  exit 0          1                stop          rh status q    exit 0          1                restart           1                reload          rh status q    exit 7          1                force-reload          force reload                status          rh status                condrestart try-restart          rh status q    exit 0         restart                           echo   Usage   0  start stop status restart condrestart try-restart reload force-reload           exit 2 esac exit      Sample config file  etc sysconfig app   exec  opt jdk1 8 0 05 jre bin java  user myuser app home  home mysuer   app args  -jar app jar   pid  app home app pid

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What follows is the easiest way to install a Java application as system service in Linux   Let s assume you are using systemd  which any modern distro nowadays does    Firstly  create a service file in  etc systemd system named e g  javaservice service with this content    Unit  Description Java Service   Service  User nobody   The configuration file application properties should be here  WorkingDirectory  data  ExecStart  usr bin java -Xmx256m -jar application jar --server port 8081 SuccessExitStatus 143 TimeoutStopSec 10 Restart on-failure RestartSec 5   Install  WantedBy multi-user target   Secondly  notify systemd of the new service file   systemctl daemon-reload   and enable it  so it runs on boot   systemctl enable javaservice service   Eventually  you can use the following commands to start stop your new service   systemctl start javaservice systemctl stop javaservice systemctl restart javaservice systemctl status javaservice   Provided you are using systemd  this is the most non-intrusive and clean way to set up a Java application as system-service   What I like especially about this solution is the fact that you don t need to install and configure any other software  The shipped systemd does all the work for you  and your service behaves like any other system service  I use it in production for a while now  on different distros  and it just works as you would expect   Another plus is that  by using  usr bin java  you can easily add jvm paramters such as -Xmx256m   Also read the systemd part in the official Spring Boot documentation  http   docs spring io spring-boot docs current reference html deployment-install html

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In this question  the answer from  PbxMan should get you started   Run a Java Application as a Service on Linux  Edit   There is another  less nice way to start a process on reboot  using cron    reboot user-to-run-under  usr bin java -jar  path to application jar   This works  but gives you no nice start stop interface for your application  You can still simply kill it anyway

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I don t know of a  standard  shrink-wrapped way to do that with a Java app  but it s definitely a good idea  you want to benefit from the keep-alive and monitoring capabilities of the operating system if they are there   It s on the roadmap to provide something from the Spring Boot tool support  maven and gradle   but for now you are probably going to have to roll your own  The best solution I know of right now is Foreman  which has a declarative approach and one line commands for packaging init scripts for various standard OS formats  monit  sys V  upstart etc    There is also evidence of people having set stuff up with gradle  e g  here

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The following works for springboot 1 3 and above   As init d service  The executable jar has the usual start  stop  restart  and status commands  It will also set up a PID file in the usual  var run directory and logging in the usual  var log directory by default   You just need to symlink your jar into  etc init d like so  sudo link -s  var myapp myapp jar  etc init d myapp   OR  sudo ln -s   myproject build libs myapp-1 0 jar  etc init d myapp servicename   After that you can do the usual   etc init d myapp start   Then setup a link in whichever runlevel you want the app to start stop in on boot if so desired      As a systemd service  To run a Spring Boot application installed in var myapp you can add the following script in  etc systemd system myapp service    Unit  Description myapp After syslog target   Service  ExecStart  var myapp myapp jar   Install  WantedBy multi-user target     NB  in case you are using this method  do not forget to make the jar file itself executable  with chmod  x  otherwise it will fail with error  Permission denied    Reference   http   docs spring io spring-boot docs current-SNAPSHOT reference html deployment-install html deployment-service

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