garage/doc/book/src/cookbook/systemd.md

Starting Garage with systemd instead of Docker

NOTE: This guide is incomplete. Typicall you would also want to create a separate Unix user to run Garage.

Make sure you have the Garage binary installed on your system (see quick start), e.g. at /usr/local/bin/garage.

Create a file named /etc/systemd/system/garage.service:

[Unit]
Description=Garage Data Store
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Environment='RUST_LOG=garage=info' 'RUST_BACKTRACE=1'
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/garage server -c /etc/garage/garage.toml

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

To start the service then automatically enable it at boot:

sudo systemctl start garage
sudo systemctl enable garage

To see if the service is running and to browse its logs:

sudo systemctl status garage
sudo journalctl -u garage

If you want to modify the service file, do not forget to run systemctl daemon-reload to inform systemd of your modifications.