Poettering: Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems [LWN.net]

Poettering: Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems

Posted Jun 18, 2014 2:54 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
Parent article: Poettering: Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems

Well I can say this: stateless would make a few of my raspberry pi one-offs much MUCH nicer to use.

Will it be useful in the real world? Hope so, I guess we'll see.

Poettering: Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems

Posted Jun 18, 2014 16:50 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

> Will it be useful in the real world? Hope so, I guess we'll see.

There is little doubt in my mind that it will be useful.

The traditional Linux OS is rapidly turning into little more then just a temporary runtime environment for kicking off applications. The more effortless you can make it to get a Linux OS bootstrapped the better off it'll be for everybody.

We are in a era were previously it took nearly a week to get a new OS environment deployed in a typical 'enterprise' environment (need to budget new hardware, justify it, order it, pick it up, install it, etc etc) down to a few minutes (RHEV or VMware 'clone virtualmachine') and eventually it's going to be less a second.

For the purposes of sandboxing and running things like Docker you will want the ability to launch new Linux OSes and destroy them several times a hour. On demand Linux deployments.