What are the systemd equivalent commands for managing services in RHEL 7?

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Issue

  • Become familiar with systemd commands to work with units(services, targets, sockets, etc)
  • What are the commands needed to interact with systemd
  • Looking for the systemd alternatives to 'service' 'chkconfig' and 'init ' commands
  • What are the commands needed to understand systemd after using SysVinit or Upstart
  • What is systemd and how do I start/stop services?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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