Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
nitro, a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor Overview Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux. There are four main applications it is designed for: As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes As init for a Linux initramfs As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes) As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument). Requirements Kernel support for Unix sockets tmpfs or writable /run on another fs Benefits over other systems All state is kept in RAM, works without tricks on read-only root file systems. Efficient event-driven, polling free operation. Zero memory allocations during…
