If you want to be lazy, use crontab @reboot
Making a systemd unit is the "correct" way
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meta: I know such questions have been asked before on stackoverflow; but lets bring them to fediverse as well (I hate stackoverflow web-design, google pop-ups, and javascript). I noticed there are always multiple ways to do such things in Linux. I think some options are very popular, while others go unmentioned (by LLMs for example). Also on different linux distributions there are different options available as far as I understand.
What do you want to accomplish? Systemd can do lots of things like monitoring, sandboxing and dependency management along with just running commands.
If you are on a Busybox init based system like OpenWRT you can also just write a init script.
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If it's a service, best to use systemd or your OSs equivalent. If that's not possible, the @boot cronjob was already mentioned.
Also maybe look at supervisord or s6.
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