From cece4eae36f72767fe107b5ce1e015d9ac9548dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Schallert <mattschallert@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:29:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [integrations] systemd: add systemd unit example (#970)

Users will likely have to change this to reflect where their binaries
are located, but provides a base example.

Fixes #959.
---
 docs/how_to/cluster_hard_way.md       |  2 ++
 integrations/systemd/m3dbnode.service | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 integrations/systemd/m3dbnode.service

diff --git a/docs/how_to/cluster_hard_way.md b/docs/how_to/cluster_hard_way.md
index 56b1d59cab..ff78bdfc9e 100644
--- a/docs/how_to/cluster_hard_way.md
+++ b/docs/how_to/cluster_hard_way.md
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ your_m3db_user        hard nofile 500000
 your_m3db_user        soft nofile 500000
 ```
 
+Alternatively, if you wish to have `m3dbnode` run under `systemd` you can use our [service example](https://github.com/m3db/m3/tree/master/integrations/systemd/m3dbnode.service) which will set sane defaults.
+
 Before running the process make sure the limits are set, if running manually you can raise the limit for the current user with `ulimit -n 500000`.
 
 ## Config files
diff --git a/integrations/systemd/m3dbnode.service b/integrations/systemd/m3dbnode.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d20966ad8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integrations/systemd/m3dbnode.service
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[Unit]
+Description="M3DB Timeseries Database"
+Documentation=http://m3db.github.io/m3/
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/m3dbnode
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSecs=10s
+SuccessExitStatus=0
+LimitNOFILE=500000
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target