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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:53PM (1 child)
Not really. This discussion involves operating systems for computers, not operating systems for sheeple.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday May 30 2018, @03:36PM
It is really. This involves who would be motivated to introduce systemd into Linux and get all the big commercial distributions to use it.
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