Intro

• Ansible role for prepare a customized upstart service which will be boot up automatically during system startup and auto restart when crashed
• The example there is running as webdriver with a TCP port
• The service will be run each time when server reboot
• The service will be restart automatically if crashed, try 5 times within 30 seconds, then giveup

Commands

• The service can be stop/start via command
• Start and stop:

sudo service myservice start|stop|status|restart

• Manually kill process:

sudo fuser -k [THE_RUNNING_PORT]/tcp

• Service log file: /var/log/myservice.log
• Process id logged at in: /var/run/myservice.pid