Running docker compose stacks in systemd

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0100

I manage all services I run in my homelab with systemd. Most services are actually docker compose stacks; this post outlines how and why.

Managing Sway tools as systemd services

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I recently took some time to set up some of the accompanying services of Sway (the window manager) as systemd user services. Those services are dunst, blueman-applet, kanshi - amongst others.

The most simple way to run those applications are to exec them when Sway starts. This is simple, but it lacks everything from automatic restart, reloading configuration and status inspection.

So, let’s look at kanshi, the service that magically manages different monitors that get detected on the system at any time; you’d run it within sway as:

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Running docker compose stacks in systemd

Managing Sway tools as systemd services