Running a spring boot service in Ubuntu 16.4

$ sudo useradd bdesilva

$ sudo passwd bdesilva

$ sudo chown bdesilva:bdesilva your-app.jar

$ sudo chmod 500 your-app.jar




sudo ln -s /path/to/your-app.jar /etc/init.d/your-app




/etc/systemd/system /your-app.service




[Unit]

Description=A Spring Boot application

After=syslog.target

 

[Service]

User=bdesilva

WorkingDirectory=/usr/src/hackfreeapps

ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar executable.jar

SuccessExitStatus=143

 

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target