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Systemd introduces "Portable Services"

posted by mrpg on Wednesday May 30 2018, @12:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-process-to-rule-them-all dept.

mechanicjay writes:

Systemd Introduces "Portable Services" Functionality, Similar To Containers

Lennart is at it again, making complicated things that nobody asked for.

The past several months Lennart Poettering has been working on a "portable services" concept and that big ticket new feature has now landed in Systemd. Portable services are akin to containers but different.

[...] A portable service is ultimately just an OS tree, either inside of a directory tree, or inside a raw disk image containing a Linux file system. This tree is called the "image". It can be "attached" or "detached" from the system. When "attached" specific systemd units from the image are made available on the host system, then behaving pretty much exactly like locally installed system services. When "detached" these units are removed again from the host, leaving no artifacts around (except maybe messages they might have logged).

[...] The primary focus use-case of "portable services" is to extend the host system with encapsulated extensions, but provide almost full integration with the rest of the system, though possibly restricted by effective security knobs. This focus includes system extensions otherwise sometimes called "super-privileged containers".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @03:20AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @03:20AM (#686069)

    Smells like Poetterings lame assed answer to chroot.
    Redhat needs to fire this fool. He's done enough damage.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:07AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:07AM (#686118) Journal

    > Implying this isn't precisely what he was hired to do in the first place.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:01PM (#686262) Journal

    Redhat needs to fire this fool. He's done enough damage.

    Red Hat is paying this guy to create new business opportunities for Red Hat to sell expert support for those unable to maintain the staff to keep their Linux systems running properly.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:05PM (#686928)

      Exactly! Open source companies have no incentive to make the software work flawlessly or in a non-confusing manner.