Managing the Sidekiq Process in Production with Systemd

Sidekiq and Systemd Service

Systemd

Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It is the default init system for Debian since Debian 8.

Systemd tasks are organized as units. The most common units are services (.service), mount points (.mount), devices (.device), sockets (.socket), or timers (.timer).

Systemctl is the main tool used to introspect and control the state of the “systemd” system and service manager. You can use systemctl to enable/disable services.

Sidekiq

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Systemd Service for Sidekiq

Our objective is to create a service file for sidekiq which can be used to start, stop or restart the Sidekiq process in the Ubuntu 16.04.

1. Create a new file for Sidekiq service:

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/sidekiq.service

2. Add the following content in the service file:

3. Reload the systemctl daemon for the new created service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

4. Enable the sidekiq service:

sudo systemctl enable sidekiq

5. Now we can start the Sidekiq service:

sudo systemctl start|stop|restart sidekiq

If you have completed the last step, you have successfully created the sidekiq service and you can start using this.

What’s next?

In the next article, we will monitor the running Sidekiq process with the help of monit or eye.