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Many traditional container engines make use of the "subuid" concept and the "newuidmap" tool to implement a concept of "unprivileged" user-namespace containers on Linux. This approach has many shortcomings in my PoV, from both a security and scalability standpoint. Recent systemd versions provide a more powerful, more secure, mor scalable alternative, via systemd-nsresourced, systemd-mountfsd and...

oo7-daemon is the new D-Bus Secret Service provider that aims to fully replace gnome-keyring. In this followup (continuation of my 2024 talk) lightning talk, I will go through the progress made, the challenges faced and the status of systemd credentials integration. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-syst...

Marco will review the features available in the initramfs-tools ecosystem, the initrd generator used by Debian and Ubuntu, and how they can be implemented (or not) by adopting mkosi-initrd. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2025/talk/E989ZX/

At Meta, we've been looking to revamp our internal container runtime (Twine). Instead of maintaining all the low level container runtime code ourselves, we'd much prefer having more of this managed by systemd. This talk will go over what we did to make systemd transient units a suitable environment for running system containers (pid namespace support, cgroup namespace support, namespace delegation...

Many OS artifacts today are still verified using proprietary, stateful keyring formats. With the "File Hierarchy for the Verification of OS Artifacts (VOA)" an attempt is made to rid the ecosystem of this limitation by implementing a generic lookup directory. With extensibility in mind, this unifying hierarchy currently provides integration for OpenPGP, with further integrations in planning. While...

Simplify systemd management with `isd`! `isd` is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizable interface for power-users and newcomers alike. If you ever became frustrated while typing: - `systemctl start --user unit-A.service` (manually starting a unit) - `systemctl status --user unit-A.service` (seeing that it failed) - `journalctl...

More than six months have passed since Daan tried to ~~shame~~ gently peer pressure Lennart to actually use the stuff he builds, via a FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4057-particleos-can-we-make-lennart-poettering-run-an-image-based-distribution-/ Did he succeed? Is dogfooding standard practice now in the systemd development process? Or do things like randomly break...

For many years, firewall solutions on Linux have grown and evolved, without any major change, until eBPF. While eBPF can allow very fast and efficient packet filtering, the learning curve doesn't make it easily accessible to non-developers. bpfilter aims to bridge the gap between existing tools (nftables, iptables) and modern technologies such as eBPF. By translating filtering rules into native co...

Landlock is an unprivileged kernel feature that enables all Linux users to sandbox their processes. Complementary to seccomp, developers can leverage Landlock to restrict their programs in a fine-grained way. While Landlock can be used by end users through sandboxer tools, there is currently no well-integrated solution to define security policies tailored to system services. Although AppArmor and...

systemd-sysext provides a nice way to enhance a distribution with a read-only root filesystem without the need to reboot. But there is additional tooling necessary to manage the sysext images: * install an image which is compatible with the installed OS version * update installed images to the newest compatible version * rollback images in case of an OS rollback * cleanup unneeded images In this p...

On image based desktops distributions such as Fedora Atomic desktops and Universal Blue, users are expected to run their graphical applications using Flatpaks and their command line ones using containers. But that approach does not work well for some applications that require more privileges, direct access to devices or kernel interfaces. With systemd system extensions (sysexts), it is possible to...

All the big cloud providers provide your machines with a unique cryptographic identity that can be used to talk to their cloud services securely without having to manage or rotate any cryptographic secrets yourself. For example GCP has Service accounts and AWS has IAM roles. This ubiquity of cloud identity and the seamless integration with all the the services of these cloud providers is one of th...

Provide a varlink service to access /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow so that no setuid and setgid binaries are necessary for this task. There are two independent "problems" which can be solved with the same idea: all files in /usr should be owned by root:root and no setuid binary should be needed. The first one is a requirement of image based updates of /usr to avoid UID/GID drift, the second one is a...

systemd-confext is a lightweight overlay mechanism for /etc, allowing you to drop in a configuration extension ("confext") bundle and let systemd make it visible to your service as though it was already shipped with the base image. Building on the same extension magic as systemd-sysext, confext also introduces extra features tailored for the /etc use case, such as vpick-ing the newest version and...

Haven’t you ever wanted to find ways to make your Rust code the most optimal in the world? I know how you feel. This is a talk, where I’d tell you how easy it is to profile your Rust software and how most often the solutions are trivial. This is a story of how I used a few readily-available Open Source tools to achieve huge optimizations in [zbus](https://crates.io/crates/zbus), a pure Rust D-Bus...

Let's have an open discussion with systemd developers who are at ASG and users in the audience. We will open with the developers saying what they plan to work on in the near future, and then allow questions / comments from the audience. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2025/talk/PXZGEL/

Communication is paramount in modern application development. This applies equally well to the process of writing applications and to the code itself. The complexity of the tasks ahead of us calls for a distributed and coordinated development effort, and this often manifests in our code: We design distributed, communicating systems to split complexity and responsibility among many people and teams...

Same as every year, a lot has happened in the systemd project since last year's ASG. We released multiple versions, packed with new components and features. This talk will provide an overview of these changes, commenting on successes and challenges, and a sneak peak at what lies ahead. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ about this event: https://cfp.all-sy...

Running **BPF** programs today requires *CAP_BPF* capability, which is an all or nothing BPF capability. But BPF nowadays spans a large area, from simple monitoring to potentially invasive fields like network or tracing. BPF Tokens aims to add fine grained BPF capabilities to systemd units and containers, avoiding to give the whole *CAP_BPF* capability or even worse running the service as privileg...

Systing helps you solve problems in minutes rather than days. Out of the box it gives you everything you could possibly need, combined with perfetto’s visualization you will never be confused again. This talk will introduce systing, a tracer that is built on modern BPF tooling, purpose built to debug large applications with complicated interactions. This will be little talk and mostly demo. Two de...

I'll use these 20 minutes to explain why and why contributing to systemd is a great experience. We'll avoid beating dead horses by not discussing git forges and email, but instead focus on the development experience, from building systemd distribution packages from git main, running integration tests against those distribution packages, debugging failures, writing new tests, and installing the dis...

Introduced in kernel v6.7, the Netkit device is an eBPF-programmable network device designed with containers in mind. In this talk, I will go over the the basics of the Netkit device, and discuss the performance gains we have realized and challenges we faced when rolling out Netkit across millions of containers at Meta. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ a...

Linux lacks a coherent security model, and by extension we never defined one for the systemd project either. In this talk I'd like to start changing this, and begin defining some general security design guidelines that we so far mostly followed implicitly, and make them more explicit. After all, systemd to a large degree is involved in security subsystems, from SecureBoot, Measured Boot & TPM, to...

Kurzer Talk, indem ich kurz vorstelle wie wir die Quellcode organisiert haben. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://pretalx.0x90.space/quellcode-2/talk/QVGLUD/

Im Hackspace sind Systemtelefone von Siemens aufgetaucht. Wir hatten sehr viel Spass mit ihnen und ich will davon erzählen. Zusammen mit zwei anderen Mitgliedern aus dem Nerdberg haben wir uns das "Unify OpenStage 60" Telefon angeschaut, Root-Zugriff bekommen und schlussendlich ein paar nette Anwendungen darauf zum laufen bekommen. Das ganze war aber eher eine längere Reise - von dieser will ich e...