Service Management

Bois contains support for managing system services.

This allows you to enable services based on traits, folders or per host.

The rules are:

• Services are enabled, but not started, unless a service explicitly requests an immediate start via the start flag.
• Once a service leaves the configuration, it’s stopped and disabled during the cleanup phase of the next deployment.
• Bois doesn’t manage the running state of services. A service that’s already enabled but was stopped manually won’t be started again.
• The mode bois runs in determines which service manager instance is targeted: user mode manages the user’s own instance (e.g. systemctl --user), system mode the system’s.

Services can be declared in a host config, a trait config or a folder’s dir.yml:

services:
  systemd:
    - systemd-timesyncd
    - backup.timer

Supported service managers:

• Systemd