Systemd WSL CentOS

Find out where systemctl is:

which systemctl

Use the path to systemctl for the following commands.

Install Python 2 (if not available by default):

sudo dnf install python2 -y
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

Wrap systemctl in Python (or somehow let systemctl work with systemd not on PID 1):

sudo mv /usr/bin/systemctl /usr/bin/systemctl.old
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement/master/files/docker/systemctl.py >temp
sudo mv temp /usr/bin/systemctl
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/systemctl

sudo dnf install nginx -y
sudo systemctl start nginx
curl localhost
sudo systemctl stop nginx