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".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)
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.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:05PM
Exactly! Open source companies have no incentive to make the software work flawlessly or in a non-confusing manner.