Simple example of a systemd-socket activated HTTP server with an nginx reverse-proxy configuration. I find systemd quite useful for quick but reliable service deployments and this is sort of a template for new services. Please read the sysusers.d(5) and systemd.socket(5) man pages. Building: go build # needs golang >= 1.14 Installation paths: /usr/local/bin/helloservice /usr/local/lib/systemd/system/helloservice.service /usr/local/lib/systemd/system/helloservice.socket /usr/lib/sysusers.d/helloservice.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/helloservice.nginx.conf Deploy: systemd-sysusers systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable helloservice.socket Run: systemctl start helloservice.socket