GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
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tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitro

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36342010

Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.

There are four main applications it is designed for:

  • As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
  • As init for a Linux initramfs
  • As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
  • As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems

Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).

  • Dave.@aussie.zone
    362·
    19 hours ago

    Does anyone actually hate systemd?

    It’s a little too monolithic and kitchen-sink-including for my liking. It doesn’t feel like the “do one thing and do it well” style, it has a pretty large attack surface as a result.

    Oh, and binary log files.

    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      19 hours ago

      It’s a little too monolithic and kitchen-sink-including for my liking. It doesn’t feel like the “do one thing and do it well” style, it has a pretty large attack surface as a result.

      That makes sense. I could see how that would irk a lot of people, but I’d personally trust the widely used, intensely scrutinized, load-bearing, open-source processes, over a lesser known one.

      Oh, and binary log files.

      Yeah those are great… Or do we dislike those too? 🙃

      • nyan@sh.itjust.works
        111·
        16 hours ago

        There are a lot of command-line tools for text, like grep and sed, that don’t work on binary files. Whether this matters to you depends on your workflow. (I use grep a lot.)

        • Badabinski@kbin.earth
          14·
          16 hours ago

          Just journalctl | grep and you’re good to go. The binary log files contain a lot of metadata per message that makes it easy to do more advanced filtering without breaking existing log file parsers.