systemd, in my opinion (one that doesn't seem to be widely shared), really does make administering a Linux server easier. No longer do I have to wrangle with shell scripts for the process control of daemons, or worry about the dependencies between them, instead I can organise that logic in a nice and neat .service file for systemd to worry about. The templating feature as this article demonstrates is also incredibly handy for DRYing up some .service files you may write.
Another feature of systemd I really like are the timers [1][2] it introduces. It offers a much more sane approach to handling scheduled jobs, and allows for an easy overview of which jobs are running and when the next job will fire via systemctl --list-timers.
Another feature of systemd I really like are the timers [1][2] it introduces. It offers a much more sane approach to handling scheduled jobs, and allows for an easy overview of which jobs are running and when the next job will fire via systemctl --list-timers.
[1] - https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.tim...
[2] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/Timers