systemd.conf 2015 , CoreOS , systemd project, Linux userspace, containers and Oss and the future.

Container technologies bring henceforth in-depth participation when it comes to streamline IT experiences anywhere and anytime.

A set of initiatives and holistic projects emerge and many are now mature with streamlined capabilities that foster innovation, flexibility, security, scalability, collaboration and productivity. 

The systemd project that is taking inspiration from the system managers of other operating systems, in particular Solaris' SMF framework, as well as MacOS X's launchd system draws our attention. 

According to Lennart Poettering, creator of the systemd project, systemd project is all about more than just an init system, but also covers device management, login management, and network management, logging services and a lot more.

At Connectikpeople.co we also believe that, a modern system and service manager should natively know the concept of a container. Containers should be a central facet of server management and the concept of it should transcend the layers of the OS stack.

systemd should not only be useful to run containers on, but also work fine when run inside containers. CoreOS' rkt container tool makes use of it as the lower level container backend.

According to Lennart Poettering, creator of the systemd project, the most important things emerging in the Linux ecosystem include:

• OS becomes commoditized,

• Something that is managed increasingly automatically,

• The OS is split into containers, where each container becomes very similar in behaviour and update cycle to the OS itself,

• Containers and OSs as the smallest unit of deployment.

Connectikpeople.co can also observe that, systemd integrating with container tools like Docker and rkt is encouraging: rkt uses systemd-nspawn as its container backend.

systemd is now at the core of so many Linux operating systems. 

systemd.conf 2015 ( in Germany this November, 2015) is intended for system developers as well as professional devops folks. containers, networking, logging, IPC, systemd in distributions, use of systemd in the cloud, on embedded and on servers, and a lot more are at the core of stakes.

Source : Jonathan Boulle.