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Virtualenv Systemd Service
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app_virtualenv.service
[Unit]
Description=Python Virtualenv service example
After=network.target
[Service]
User=my_user
Group=my_group
Environment=VIRTUAL_ENV=/home/my_user/.virtualenvs/my_venv
Environment=PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH
ExecStart=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/my_entrypoint
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Digenis commented May 27, 2020

Systemd does not expand environment variables.
You end up with literal $VIRTUAL_ENV and $PATH inside the PATH variable
and in path to the executable.

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