Service blocks

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Blocks that keep services running, stopped, enabled or disabled.

Manage Service

Starts, stops, reloads or restarts a service, or sets whether it starts at boot.

Generates: a services promise.

Setting	Required	Description
Service name	Yes	The service’s name, as the host’s service manager knows it, e.g. nginx or ssh.
Action	Yes	Reload and Restart act every time this block runs: connect them with a “repaired” arrow so they only run after a change. One of: Running (and enabled at boot), Stopped (and disabled at boot), Enabled at boot (not started now), Disabled at boot (not stopped now), Reload, Restart. Default: Running (and enabled at boot).

The policy it generates, for example:

# Keep nginx running
services:
  "nginx" service_policy => "start";