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+all: slides.pdf
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+slides.toc:
+	lualatex slides.tex
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+slides.pdf: slides.toc
+	lualatex slides.tex
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+	rm -f slides.aux slides.log slides.nav \
+	slides.out slides.toc slides.snm
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+This repository contains the slides for my systemd presentation at Hackeriet.
+
+Requires LaTeX, [beamer][] and the [metropolis][] theme.
+
+[beamer]: http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/
+[metropolis]: https://github.com/matze/mtheme
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+[Unit]
+Description=Demonstrate failing units
+OnFailure=demo-notify@%n.service
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/false
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+[Unit]
+Description=Limited resources demo
+DefaultDependencies=no
+Before=slices.target
+
+[Slice]
+CPUQuota=10%
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+[Unit]
+Description=Demonstrate systemd templating by sending a notification
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/notify-send 'Systemd notification' '%i'
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+[Unit]
+Description=Demonstrate systemd path units
+
+[Path]
+DirectoryNotEmpty=/tmp/hackeriet
+Unit=demo.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=Stress test CPU
+
+[Service]
+Slice=demo.slice
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/stress -c 5
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+[Unit]
+Description=Demonstrate systemd timers
+
+[Timer]
+OnActiveSec=2
+OnUnitActiveSec=5
+AccuracySec=5
+Unit=demo.service
+# OnCalendar=Thu,Fri 2016-*-1,5 11:12:13
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
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+[Unit]
+Description=Demo unit for systemd
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/echo "Systemd unit activated. Hello Hackeriet."
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+# simple oneshot
+
+Run `demo-notify@hello.service`
+
+# simple timer
+
+Run `demo-timer.timer`, show both
+
+# enabling
+
+Enable `demo-timer.timer`, go to symlink folder, disable
+
+# OnError
+
+Show & run `demo-error.service`
+
+# cgroups demo
+
+Start `demo-stress.service` without, show in htop, stop
+Show slice unit, start slice unit
+Add Slice=demo-limits.slice
+daemon-reload
+Start stress again
+
+# Proper service
+
+Look at nginx unit
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+[notes]
+### 1
+### 2
+Let's start off by looking at what an init system is, how they used to work and what systemd does different before we go into more systemd-specific details.
+### 3
+system processes that are started include for example FS mounts, network settings, powertop...
+system services are long-running processes such as daemons, e.g. SSH, database or web servers, session managers, udev ...
+
+orphans: Process whose parent has finished somehow, gets adopted by init system
+-> when a process terminates its parent must call wait() to get its exit() code, if there is no init system adopting orphans the process would become a zombie
+### 4
+Before systemd there were simple init systems that just did the tasks listed on the previous slide.
+Init scripts -> increased greatly in complexity over time, look at incomprehensible skeleton for Debian service init scripts
+Runlevels -> things such as single-user mode, full multiuser mode, reboot, halt
+
+Init will run all the scripts, but it will not do much more than print information on success/failure of started scripts
+
+Init scripts run strictly sequential
+
+Init is unaware of inter-service dependencies, expressed through prefixing scripts with numbers etc.
+
+Init will not watch processes after system is booted -> crashing daemons will not automatically restart
+### 5
+### 6
+How systemd came to be
+
+Considering the lack of process monitoring, problematic things about init scripts -> legacy init systems have drawbacks
+
+Apple had already built launchd, a more featured init system that monitored running processes, could automatically restart them and allowed for certain advanced features -> however it is awful to use and wrap your head around
+
+Lennart Poettering of Pulseaudio fame and Kay Sievers decided to implement a new init system to address these problems, while taking certain clues from Apple's design
+### 7
+Systemd's design goals
+### 8
+No more init scripts with opaque effects -> services are clearly defined units
+Unit dependencies -> systemd can figure out what can be started in parallel
+Process supervision: Unit can be configured in many ways, e.g. always restart, only restart on success etc
+Service logs: We'll talk more about this later
+### 9
+Units are the core component of systemd that users deal with. They define services and everything else that systemd needs to start and manage.
+Note that all these are the names of the respective man page on a system with systemd installed
+Types:
+systemd.service - processes controlled by systemd
+systemd.target - equivalent to "runlevels", grouping of units for synchronisation
+systemd.timer - more powerful replacement of cron that starts other units
+systemd.path - systemd equvialent of inotify, watches files/folders -> launches units
+systemd.socket - expose local IPC or network sockets, launch units on connections
+systemd.device - trigger units when certain devices are connected
+systemd.mount - systemd equivalent of fstab entries
+systemd.swap - like mount
+systemd.slice - unit groups for resource management purposes
+... and a few more specialised ones
+### 10
+Linux cgroups are a new resource management feature added quite a long time ago, but not used much.
+Cgroups can be created manually and processes can be moved into them in order to control resource utilisation
+Few people used them before systemd, limits.conf was often much easier but not as fine-grained
+Systemd changed this
+### 11
+Systemd collects standard output and stderr from all processes into its journal system
+they provide a tool for querying the log, for example grouping service logs together with correct timestamps, querying,
+### 12
+Systemd tooling, most important one is systemctl for general service management
+journalctl is the query and management tool for journald
+systemd-analyze is used for figuring out performance issues, for example by analysing the boot process, can make cool graphs of dependencies
+systemd-cgtop is like top, but not on a process level - it's on a cgroup/slice level, shows combined usage of cgroups
+systemd-cgls lists contents of systemd's cgroups to see which services are in what group
+there also exist a bunch of others that we'll skip for now
+### 13
+### 14
+### 15
+Systemd criticism comes from many directions and usually focuses on a few points
+feature-creep: systemd is absorbing a lot of different services
+### 16
+explain diagram a bit
+### 17
+opaque: as a result, systemd has a lot more internal complexity that people can't easily wrap your mind around. However I argue that unless you're using something like suckless' sinit with your own scripts, you probably have no idea what your init does today anyways
+unstable: this was definitely true even in the first stable release, with the binary log format getting corrupted for example. I haven't personally experienced any trouble with it recently though.
+Another thing is that services start depending on systemd when they shouldn't, a problem for the BSD world (who cares (hey christoph!))
+### 18
+Despite criticism, systemd was adopted rapidly by large portions of the Linux
+Initially in RedHat, because Poettering and co work there and it was clear from the beginning that it would be there
+ArchLinux (which I'm using) and a few others followed suit quite quickly
+Eventually, the big Debian init system discussion - after a lot of flaming - led to Debian adopting it as well, which had a ripple effect for related distros such as Ubuntu which abandoned upstart for it.
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+\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
+\usetheme{metropolis}
+
+\newenvironment{code}{\ttfamily}{\par}
+
+\title{systemd}
+\subtitle{The standard Linux init system}
+
+\begin{document}
+\metroset{titleformat frame=smallcaps}
+
+\maketitle
+
+\section{Introduction}
+
+\begin{frame}{What is an init system?}
+  An init system is the first userspace process (PID 1) started in a UNIX-like system. It handles:
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Starting system processes and services to prepare the environment
+  \item Adopting and ``reaping'' orphaned processes
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Classical init systems}
+  Init systems before systemd - such as SysVinit - were very simple.
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Services and processes to run are organised into ``init scripts''
+  \item Scripts are linked to specific runlevels
+  \item Init system is configured to boot into a runlevel
+  \end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}
+
+\section{systemd}
+
+\begin{frame}{Can we do better?}
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item ``legacy'' init systems have a lot of drawbacks
+  \item Apple is taking a different approach on OS X
+  \item Systemd project was founded to address these issues
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd design goals}
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Expressing service dependencies
+  \item Monitoring service status
+  \item Enable parallel service startups
+  \item Ease of use
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd - the basics}
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item No scripts are executed, only declarative units
+  \item Units have explicit dependencies
+  \item Processes are supervised
+  \item cgroups are utilised to apply resource limits
+  \item Service logs are managed and centrally queryable
+  \item Much more!
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd units}
+  Units specify how and what to start. Several types exist:
+  \begin{code}
+    \small
+    \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth]
+      \column{0.5\textwidth}
+      \begin{itemize}
+      \item systemd.service
+      \item systemd.target
+      \item systemd.timer
+      \item systemd.path
+      \item systemd.socket
+      \end{itemize}
+      \column{0.5\textwidth}
+      \begin{itemize}
+      \item systemd.device
+      \item systemd.mount
+      \item systemd.swap
+      \item systemd.slice
+      \end{itemize}
+    \end{columns}
+  \end{code}
+\end{frame}
+
+
+\begin{frame}{Resource management}
+  Systemd utilises Linux \texttt{cgroups} for resource management, specifically CPU, disk I/O and memory usage.
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Hierarchical setup of groups makes it easy to limit resources for a set of services
+  \item Units can be attached to a \texttt{systemd.slice} for controlling resources for a group of services
+  \item Resource limits can also be specified directly in the unit
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{journald}
+  Systemd comes with an integrated log management solution, replacing software such as \texttt{syslog-ng}.
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item All process output is collected in the journal
+  \item \texttt{journalctl} tool provides many options for querying and tailing logs
+  \item Children of processes automatically log to the journal as well
+  \item \textbf{Caveat:} Hard to learn initially
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd tooling}
+  A variety of CLI-tools exist for managing systemd systems.
+  \begin{code}
+    \begin{itemize}
+    \item systemctl
+    \item journalctl
+    \item systemd-analyze
+    \item systemd-cgtop
+    \item systemd-cgls
+    \end{itemize}
+  \end{code}
+
+  Let's look at some of them.
+\end{frame}
+
+\section{Demo}
+
+\section{Controversies}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd criticism}
+  Systemd has been heavily criticised, usually focusing around a few points:
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Feature-creep: Systemd absorbs more and more other services
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd criticism}
+  \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,width=\textwidth]{systemdcomponents.png}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd criticism}
+  Systemd has been heavily criticised, usually focusing around a few points:
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Feature-creep: Systemd absorbs more and more other services
+  \item Opaque: systemd's inner workings are harder to understand than old \texttt{init}
+  \item Unstable: development is quick and breakage happens
+  \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Systemd adoption}
+  Systemd was initially adopted by RedHat (and related distributions).
+
+  It spread quickly to others, for example ArchLinux.
+
+  Debian and Ubuntu were the last major players who decided to adopt it, but not without drama.
+\end{frame}
+
+\section{Questions?}
+
+\end{document}
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