How to make Spring Boot application start when Linux boots

Note: tested on Ubuntu. Replace YOUR_APP_NAME with your application's name and ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_YOUR_APP with absolute path to your application.

First go to /etc/init.d/ and create file YOUR_APP_NAME with this contents:

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          YOUR_APP_NAME
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Should-Start:      $named
# Should-Stop:       $named
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start Tomcat YOUR_APP_NAME.
# Description:       Start the Tomcat YOUR_APP_NAME servlet engine.
### END INIT INFO

SERVICE_NAME=YOUR_APP_NAME
PATH_TO_JAR=/ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_YOUR_APP/YOUR_APP_NAME.jar
OPTS="-Xmx256m"
PID_PATH_NAME=/tmp/YOUR_APP_NAME-pid
case $1 in
    start)
        echo "Starting $SERVICE_NAME ..."
        if [ ! -f $PID_PATH_NAME ]; then
            nohup java -jar $OPTS $PATH_TO_JAR /tmp 2>> /dev/null >> /dev/null &
                        echo $! > $PID_PATH_NAME
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME started ..."
        else
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME is already running ..."
        fi
    ;;
    stop)
        if [ -f $PID_PATH_NAME ]; then
            PID=$(cat $PID_PATH_NAME);
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME stoping ..."
            kill $PID;
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopped ..."
            rm $PID_PATH_NAME
        else
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME is not running ..."
        fi
    ;;
    restart)
        if [ -f $PID_PATH_NAME ]; then
            PID=$(cat $PID_PATH_NAME);
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopping ...";
            kill $PID;
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopped ...";
            rm $PID_PATH_NAME
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME starting ..."
            nohup java -jar $PATH_TO_JAR /tmp 2>> /dev/null >> /dev/null &
                        echo $! > $PID_PATH_NAME
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME started ..."
        else
            echo "$SERVICE_NAME is not running ..."
        fi
    ;;
esac

Next just call:

update-rc.d YOUR_APP_NAME defaults

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