Monday, 13 June, 2016 UTC
Summary
Node deployment series
This post is belong to Node deployment series
Why start Nodejs service use Systemd ?
Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities.
Systemd is awesome. Yes, it is. It powerful.
Run Nodejs applications as a system service use Systemd help us ensure:
- Node.js service starts automatically.
- Keep node service running after it crash. - Log, and NODE_ENV are support - Easy to monitor. Systemd support log management.
Setup
Systemd is awesome. Yes, it is. It powerful.
Run Nodejs applications as a system service use Systemd help us ensure:
- Node.js service starts automatically.
- Keep node service running after it crash. - Log, and NODE_ENV are support - Easy to monitor. Systemd support log management.
This is a Systemd config for run Node service. Save this file at /etc/systemd/system/nodeapp.service
[Unit]
Description=Your Node service description go here
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
PIDFile=/run/nodeapp.pid
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/app/
User=www-data
Group=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node index.js
Restart=always
Environment='NODE_ENV=production'
StandardOutput=null
StandardError=null
SyslogIdentifier=ghost
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Detail of config
To ensure that node bin location you type to terminal:
which node
Result can be
Then change line to result appear
/usr/local/bin/node or /usr/bin/node Then change line to result appear
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node
Change start file for your are
Suchas for Ghost is
Then change line to result appear
index.js,app.js or server.js ? Suchas for Ghost is
index.js Then change line to result appear
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node index.js
All most done.
Start nodeapp service.
Start nodeapp service.
systemctl start nodeapp
Enable it to run on boot up
systemctl enable nodeapp
See nodeapp service log
journalctl -u myapp
Now if you done right, your node service up and. You can try to run nodejs web service as backend and Nginx as frontend web server. Let's read Speed up Nodejs Application with Nginx proxy caching