Open Source Python Init Software

Lightweight containers have made running a single process without normal init systems like systemd or sysvinit practical. However, omitting an init system often leads to incorrect handling of processes and signals, and can result in problems such as containers that can’t be gracefully stopped, or leaking containers that should have been destroyed. dumb-init is simple to use and solves many of these problems: you can just add it to the front of any container’s command, and it will take on the role of PID 1 for itself. It immediately spawns your process as PID ~2, and then proxies on any signals it receives. This helps to avoid special kernel behavior applied to PID 1, while also handling regular responsibilities of the init system (like reaping orphaned zombie processes). dumb-init is a simple process supervisor and init system designed to run as PID 1 inside minimal container environments (such as Docker). It is deployed as a small, statically-linked binary written in C.

Forty-two is a set of init scripts for Linux written in Python.

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init4boot provides iSCSI boot for Xen dom0 and domU, kvm guests and bare metal systems - currently for Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. It's an extensible tool set for creating initramfs with support for: iSCSI, lvm2, md, multipath, network, tftp config,