Nitro

Tiny init system & process supervisor.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Easily configure and run processes and services. All state kept in RAM, works on read-only filesystems. Event-driven, polling free. Can run as PID 1 on Linux. Includes a control CLI. Works on FreeBSD and as a container init system. Single binary.

Tradeoffs

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