Set up Odoo as a system service

For a production instance, it is very important that the Odoo server gets started when the computer reboots. On current Linux systems, there are different ways of achieving this, depending on the distribution and the server setup; either it is an init script, or a systemd configuration. This recipe shows how to do both.

Getting ready

We assume that you followed the first two recipes to install and configure your Odoo instance. Especially the deployed source of Odoo, which is at /home/odoo/odoo-prod/project/src/odoo/, and the configuration file of the instance, which is at /home/odoo/odoo-prod/project/production.conf. The scripts also makes use of the start-odoo script created in step 9 of the Install Odoo for production recipe.

You will first need to find out which initialization system is running on your system. For this, run the following:

$ dpkg -l systemd

If the last line of output starts with ii systemd, then systemd is available on your system. Otherwise...