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s6
- OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems
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are there any good reasons for me to avoid systemd
A (rare) good critique to systemd can be found here. Written by the developer behind s6, which happens to be scheduled to replace OpenRC on Alpine Linux. For completeness-sake, some of the main reasons why Alpine doesn't prefer systemd do not apply on most other distros.
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A discussion about the Ultimate Linux Desktop
It got mass-adopted while being imperfect, so that's to be expected. Thankfully its inception and the criticism that followed have paved the way for the likes of dinit and s6.
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Which do you use systemd or openrc? Why do you use what you use?
this page and this page, both by Laurent Bercot, creator of s6.
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init software: What's the difference?
Of the two I have experience with, runit is simpler and thus easier to get the hang of than s6-rc/s6. Though the s6 (not s6-rc) docs at the author's site contain a lot of info (including apologetics and rationales) that applies almost equally well to runit
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What do you guys think about this?
systemd: Yes; it's awaiting its "PipeWire". Thankfully, the likes of s6 and dinit are very promising. Though I can actually appreciate that systemd is addressed. As ultimately it helps in raising awareness that will benefit whatever software will replace it eventually.
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The (GNU/)Linux rabbit hole has been a negative influence on my mental state
Arguably this is less troublesome to solve compared to the other concerns. As we're inevitably waiting for the system supervision suite that will be to systemd what PipeWire has been to PulseAudio. I'm very optimistic about this as both s6 and Dinit are shaping up lovely.
- Systemd 252 Released
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Trouble with s6 services
Using the s6-service add command I added a service called "libvertd" when I ment to put "libvirtd". Now when I run s6-db-reload it spits out a error message saying "undefined service name libvertd". But I cant remove it using s6-service remove libvertd because that just spits out a generic help message and doesn't change anything. I also couldn't find documentation on https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ or https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/ as the command just *doesn't* exist on those pages. (also no man or info page).
- Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
tini
- Anakin – Automatically Kill Orphans
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Freenginx.org
yes busybox httpd or civetweb is even smaller, both around 300kb.
for tini you mean https://github.com/krallin/tini? how large is your final docker image, why not just alpine in that case which is musl+busybox
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🚨Avoid this when running containerized applications in production
Tini, a useful process manager for containerized apps
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Should You Be Scared of Unix Signals?
Ah gotcha. I believe it can be baked into images as well, per the entrypoint example in the readme: https://github.com/krallin/tini
Not sure how this will fare IRL in k8s as I haven’t much experience there. It’s still silly that this is the default behavior where you need something like Tini, but I digress.
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The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
To be fair, even for running a single process the pitfalls are real. I've been seeing Tini[1] a lot for these situations.
I just read in the README that Tini is included by Docker since 1.13 if using --init flag.
[1] https://github.com/krallin/tini
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docker run --init flag doesn't seem to work on Mac
The default init process used is the first docker-init executable found in the system path of the Docker daemon process. This docker-init binary, included in the default installation, is backed by tini.
- ส่อง Dockerfile for Go
- Learning by doing: An HTTP API with Rust
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Silver bullet: selfhostable personal knowledge management system
AFAIK It's for the init process to reparent zombie processes. See TINI
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How to implement pods that gracefully shutdown
The second easiest (and most common when your entry point is a bash script) is to use a fake init tool like tini
What are some alternatives?
dinit - Service monitoring / "init" system
dumb-init - A minimal init system for Linux containers
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
init - KISS Linux - Init Framework
inotify-tools - inotify-tools is a C library and a set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify.
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
torsocks - Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git
hummingbird - Hummingbird init system for Linux based operating systems.
dualsensectl - Linux tool for controlling PS5 DualSense controller
rconfd - Generate config files from jsonnet templates with secrets fetched from a vault server
docker-intro - This is the repo for my talk and blog post about Docker (practical example).