CoreOS Usually, when you have a Linux distro, it would come with the standard ISO, package manager (yum, yast, apt) to distribute all of the individual pieces of compiled software, and other programs like netcat, httpd, etc. that just ends up being extra overhead. CoreOS differs in that they distribute an entire disk image that's … Continue reading Introduction to CoreOS, Fleet, Etcd, and Flannel

Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. It is designed to be backwards compatible with SysV init scripts, and provides a number of features such as parallel startup of system services at boot time, on-demand activation of daemons, support for system state snapshots, or dependency-based service control logic. Systemd introduces the … Continue reading INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMD