Hugues Malphettes <hmalphet...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > We are discussing adding support for coreos's fleet to control a user > session of systemd. > On paper it is perfect to run a distributed application in an > infrastructure without root access.
This would be extremely helpful for some projects of mine. For a while I've been providing to my users a group of high-powered machines with a common user database, which they can log into as their (unprivileged) user and use (unprivileged) virtual machines or run distributed applications. Still, they had to manually distribute their applications across the machines. I've been planning to write a cluster manager that can operate on individual user accounts rather than whole hosts, so that this cluster is more useful. Indeed, in my idle thoughts on the matter I planned to make use of systemd --user as the user-account-local supervisor. If you taught Fleet how to do this, that would be perfect for my deployment! > So what is the future for this part of systemd? Not being a systemd developer, I can only hope that systemd --user stays around; it's a great movement in the right direction, of putting more capability in the hands of unprivileged users. Using it as a component in a cluster manager like Fleet is an important part of this. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel