Start a service after enabling it

[adsr]

Describe the Enhancement:

Add the ability to start a systemd unit but only after enabling it.

Describe the Need:

It's a common operational task is to start a service after enabling it. systemd has a flag for this (--now) which also handles the opposite direction (stopping a service when disabling it).

Current Alternative

An execute resource

[rjhornsby]

Maybe I'm confused about what the problem is, but what you describe

a common operational task is to start a service after enabling it

is something we do all the time:

service 'vault' do
  action %i[enable start]
end

[adsr]

The distinction is "starting a service unconditionally" vs "starting a service only when it transitions to enabled".

[Tensibai]

This is not something great at all to start only on transition, what if it fail ? do you really want it to stay down on next chef run because the service is already enabled ? That doesn't sounds right in a state description.