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+---
+layout: post
+title: "Deploying Docker containers to systemd with GitLab CI"
+date: 2016-10-23 12:00:00 -0400
+tags: ["GitLab", "CI", "Docker", "systemd"]
+---
+```ini dockercontainer@.service
+# unit to run any arbitrary Docker container
+[Unit]
+Description=%i
+After=docker.service
+Requires=docker.service
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+
+[Service]
+TimeoutStartSec=0
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start -a %i
+ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop %i
+```
+
+```bash deploy-image.sh
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+set -u
+
+DOCKER_IMAGE="$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME"
+DOCKER_CONTAINER=$(echo "$CI_PROJECT_NAME" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')".$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME"
+
+if docker inspect "$DOCKER_CONTAINER" 2>&1 > /dev/null; then
+        if docker inspect "$DOCKER_CONTAINER.backup" 2>&1 > /dev/null; then
+                echo "Deleting previous backup $DOCKER_CONTAINER.backup"
+                docker rm "$DOCKER_CONTAINER.backup" > /dev/null
+        fi
+        echo "Backing up container $DOCKER_CONTAINER"
+        sudo systemctl stop "dockercontainer@$DOCKER_CONTAINER"
+        docker rename "$DOCKER_CONTAINER" "$DOCKER_CONTAINER.backup"
+fi
+
+docker pull "$DOCKER_IMAGE"
+/usr/bin/docker create --name "$DOCKER_CONTAINER" "$DOCKER_IMAGE"
+
+sudo systemctl start "dockercontainer@$DOCKER_CONTAINER"
+sudo systemctl enable "dockercontainer@$DOCKER_CONTAINER"
+```
+
+```yaml .gitlab-ci.yml
+stages:
+  - publish
+  - deploy
+
+publish:
+  stage: publish
+  tags: [docker]
+  script:
+    - docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_BUILD_TOKEN $CI_REGISTRY
+    - docker build --pull -t $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME .
+    - docker push $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME
+
+deploy:
+  stage: deploy
+  environment: Live
+  tags: [ssh-executor]
+  variables: {GIT_STRATEGY: none}
+  when: manual
+  only: [master]
+  script:
+    - ~/Infrastructure-CoreOS/deploy-image.sh
+```