Systemd vs. Docker

Posted Mar 3, 2016 21:35 UTC (Thu) by Tet (guest, #5433)
In reply to: Systemd vs. Docker by shykes
Parent article: Systemd vs. Docker

Many people use Docker on systemd-based machines and it works perfectly fine.

I'm afraid this is simply not true in my experience. I gave up on using Docker specifically because I have better things to do with my life than to try and beat it into shape to do what I want to do when it seems to go out of my way to make that difficult. Amongst other things, I want containers to be started by the native init system (which in my case is systemd), like any other service on my machine. With full dependencies between other things that happen to be running on that machine. If that works "perfectly fine" with Docker, then I'm either blind and stupid or the means of doing so is undocumented, undiscoverable and unintuitive.