e-learning
How I learned to stop worrying and love the systemd
Abstract
Many linux sysadmins with years and years of experience bemoan systemd ("it's infecting everything! Now it wants to mess with time? And DNS???") and journalctl ("unix was supposed to be about files!") and while those are fair complaints and make systemd and friends wildly more opaque than traditional SysV and logging to files, there are some benefits that can be obtained, and may be interesting even to the wise old admins. There is a lot of convenience in systemd that can make the tradeoffs worth it.
About This Material
This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.
Questions this will address
- Unix is supposed to be about FILES™
- What is this systemd stuff?
- Why should I love it?
- I have so many worries!
Learning Objectives
- Have an objective understanding of systemd allowing the user to obtain the benefits of this new system
- Realise the joys of journald, and how it makes logging easier and simpler
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Keywords: Galaxy Server administration, ansible, systemd
Target audience: Galaxy Administrators
Resource type: e-learning
Version: 3
Status: Active
Prerequisites:
Galaxy Installation with Ansible
Learning objectives:
- Have an objective understanding of systemd allowing the user to obtain the benefits of this new system
- Realise the joys of journald, and how it makes logging easier and simpler
Date modified: 2023-09-28
Date published: 2022-07-06
Contributors: Nate Coraor
Activity log
