For a production instance, it is very important that the Odoo server gets started when the computer reboots. On current Linux systems, this is achieved through a systemd configuration. If your OS is not using systemd, you will have to check the documentation to obtain this result.
Setting up Odoo as a system service
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...