How to run Python script as a service on Ubuntu 22

Alfredo Barron
2 min readMar 5, 2024

To run a Python script as a service on Ubuntu, you can use systemd, which is the standard system and service manager for Linux. Here’s a general outline of how you can achieve this.

  1. Write your Python script:
    Create your Python script that you want to run as a service. For example, let’s say your script is named `my_script.py`.
  2. Create a systemd service

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