SystemD Pilot is a desktop application for managing systemd services on GNU/linux systems. List and manipulate services, filter by state. Makes it easy to create override configs.

The playground allows you to learn about systemd interactively, right from your browser! Create examples without the danger of breaking your system, and without being distracted by hundreds of unrelated unit files.

Systemd homepage. Has links to documentation, FAQs, and everything that might be useful in putting up with systemd.

A pure Python implementation of systemd's service notification protocol (sd_notify). Makes it possible to use the "notify" service type in .service files.

Try an experiment where this is added to the XMPP bridge, right around here: https://github.com/virtadpt/exocortex-halo/blob/master/exocortex_xmpp_bridge/exocortex_xmpp_bridge.py#L193

Python module for native access to the systemd facilities. Functionality is separated into different sub-modules: journal, daemons and sockets, machine and boot identifiers, and login. Appears packaged for all of the big distros already.

About as official as it gets. Documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/python-systemd/

Pip: systemd-python