s6-rc
Service manager for s6-based systems
The s6-rc service manager, part of the s6 ecosystem, is a correct and efficient alternative to software managing boot scripts like sysv-rc or OpenRC: it provides a bootability guarantee, a reliable logging infrastructure, parallel service start without race conditions, and the lowest resource usage of all existing service managers (which means it is very fast and will run on the smallest systems). However, it is not yet adopted by many Linux distributions, for lack of a high-level user interface and pre-provided boot scripts.
We are adding these features to s6-rc so it can be easily integrated to more distributions currently relying on OpenRC, such as Alpine Linux, and also targeted as a backend for service description languages for use with automatic deployment to containers, VMs, clusters, or embedded systems. The goal is to make s6-rc an accessible and widely known service management alternative for fast, reliable and energy-friendly system deployment.
- The project's own website: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/
This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.
