Generating systemd service files

If it does not already exist, create the systemd user directory in your home directory.

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user

Then generate the systemd service file.

For this example we will generate a service file a container called jupyter-notebook.

podman generate systemd \
	--user \
	--new \
	--name jupyter-notebook \
	-f /home/user/.config/systemd/user/

This will create container-jupyter.service in ~/.config/systemd/user/. If you do not use --name you will get a service file named something like container-dg6464323fsdf34536.

After creating the service file, reload systemd.

Systemctl --user daemon-reload

Stop the jupyter container.

podman stop jupyter-notebook

Enable and start container-jupyter.service.

Systemctl --user enable --now container-jupyter-notebook.service

Check if everything worked

Systemctl --user status container-jupyter-notebook

podman container ps jupyter-notebook

If you want the container to be accessible when the user is not logged in, you will need to run

loginctl enable-linger user

This will allow services owned by the user to run without the user being logged in.