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diff --git a/presentations/systemd-2016/slides.tex b/presentations/systemd-2016/slides.tex deleted file mode 100644 index c613cefd7ec4..000000000000 --- a/presentations/systemd-2016/slides.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,160 +0,0 @@ -\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} |