How do I get my Golang web server to run in the background?

Question

I have recently completed the Wiki web development tutorial (http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/). I had tons of fun and I would like to experiment more with the n

Answer 1

This will configure your service using systemd, not a comprehensive tutorial but rather a quick jump-start of how this can be set up.

Content of your app.service file

[Unit]  
Description=deploy-webhook service
After=network.target

[Service]      
ExecStart=/usr/bin/go webhook.go    
WorkingDirectory=/etc/deploy-webhook

User=app-svc      
Group=app-svc

Restart=always    
RestartSec=10    
KillSignal=SIGINT

SyslogIdentifier=deploy-webhook-service      
PrivateTmp=true  

Environment=APP_PARAM_1=ParamA
Environment=APP_PARAM_2=ParamB

[Install]      
WantedBy=multi-user.target  

Starting the Service

sudo systemctl start deploy-webhook.service

Service Status

sudo systemctl status deploy-webhook.service

Logs

journalctl -u deploy-webhook -e