Systemd and containers

Posted Jun 12, 2015 8:16 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Systemd and containers by cuviper
Parent article: Systemd and containers

NetworkManager is a useful but quite complicated piece of software, and adding potentially several instances of dnsmasq into the mix isn't going to make things more straightforward. It would be useful to be able to deal with as many of the standard use cases as is reasonable with systemd-networkd (and if it plays well with containers, so much the better) and reserve the extra complexity of NetworkManager for those situations where it is actually needed (like dealing with lots of different wireless networks).

Systemd and containers

Posted Jun 18, 2015 8:07 UTC (Thu) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link] (1 responses)

NetworkManager is a useful but quite complicated piece of software,

So does systemd differ by being not useful or by being not complicated? I don't quite see the point you try to make against this being NIH syndrome.

Systemd and containers

Posted Jun 18, 2015 9:08 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

There are lots of systems that profit from being based on systemd but have no conceivable need for NetworkManager (mostly because NetworkManager's strength is dealing with a changing network environment, while these systems may be sitting firmly on a desk or in a rack somewhere). It makes sense to investigate whether such systems could use something simpler than NetworkManager+dnsmasq.