This article is a bit of a joke "It's software so of course it's buggy" isn't a great argument when you're replacing something that didn't suffer the same issues.
I just count my blessings that runit is widely packaged in every major distro because it can just happily sit on top of sysvinit, systemd, upstart, pretty much any init system and does things in a very simple shell script style, I really wasn't a fan of the weird ini-like format for systemd or several different tools I'm expected to learn just to read my (now binary) log files competently.
If you're sick of switching init systems constantly or don't want to have to write separate scripts for your linux box and your freebsd box even, I highly recommend checking runit out.
I'm sure I'll give it a serious shot eventually... in about 3 years once they work all the Poettering kinks out, just like PulseAudio. They're doing some cool things with cgroups and stuff, so I hope it gets there eventually.
I second using runit. We use runit to be able to use the same service definitions inside docker, on a VM or bare metal.
If you've ever tried to use systemd inside docker to bring up a couple of services, you would know the hoops you have to jump through to get it working.
(I understand that docker wasn't invented to run multiple services in the one container, but sometimes it can't be avoided and simplifies app deployment vastly I.e, using CI to test your service actually starts up as per its definition: just run up a quick docker image with runit and a service definition file)
If you use systemd, you can use standard packages from your distro to run up services inside a container. That's basically the only reason I considered it.
I just count my blessings that runit is widely packaged in every major distro because it can just happily sit on top of sysvinit, systemd, upstart, pretty much any init system and does things in a very simple shell script style, I really wasn't a fan of the weird ini-like format for systemd or several different tools I'm expected to learn just to read my (now binary) log files competently.
If you're sick of switching init systems constantly or don't want to have to write separate scripts for your linux box and your freebsd box even, I highly recommend checking runit out.
I'm sure I'll give it a serious shot eventually... in about 3 years once they work all the Poettering kinks out, just like PulseAudio. They're doing some cool things with cgroups and stuff, so I hope it gets there eventually.