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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}