To tell systemd to start services automatically at boot, you must enable them. To start a service at boot, use the enable command: sudo systemctl enable application. service.

How do you check if a systemd service is enabled?

Start/stop or enable/disable services Check whether a service is already enabled or not: # systemctl is-enabled foo.

Does Systemd enable start the service?

systemctl enable configures the system to start the service at next reboot (with caveats around correct target states, etc). systemctl start starts (activates) the service immediately. So if you want a service to start now and on every reboot then you need to both enable and start the service.