A Look at Facebook's Use of Systemd (phoronix.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday October 5, 2018 @05:20AM from the growing-adoption dept.

At an event this month (you can find the video of it here), Davide Cavalca, a production engineer at Facebook, spoke about the growing adoption of systemd at the data centers of the company. From a report: Facebook continues making use of systemd's many features inside their data centers. Some of their highlights for systemd use in 2018 includes: Facebook's servers have been relying on systemd for about the past two years. Facebook is using CentOS 7 everywhere from hosts to containers. While relying on CentOS 7, Facebook backports a lot of packages including new systemd releases, Meson, other dependencies, and of course new Linux kernel releases. Facebook is working on "pystemd" as a Python (Cython) wrapper on top of SD-BUS.

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Systemd by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2018-10-05 05:24 · Score: 3, Funny

#systemctl enable usertracking.service
#systemctl start usertracking.service

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1. Re:systemd by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-05 06:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  SYSTEMD!
  Slowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...
  Then I unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep.
Re:Ugh by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-05 05:56 · Score: 0, Funny

Yeah, all the highly skilled sysadmins updated their startup scripts years ago to start under systemd. It's only the lazy weak sysadmins who have spent the last four of five years whining that systemd once broke a script somewhere.
They’re using CentOS huh? by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2018-10-05 06:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I can understand... these startups can’t afford the license fees Red Hat charges.

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Re:Wait by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-05 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny

It's end-to-end integration!