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Reword the intro to the document, as portable services are a stable interface
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# Portable Services Introduction # Portable Services Introduction
This systemd version includes a preview of the "portable service" systemd (since version 239) supports a concept of "Portable Services".
concept. "Portable Services" are supposed to be an incremental improvement over "Portable Services" are a delivery method for system services that uses
traditional system services, making two specific facets of container management two specific features of container management:
available to system services more readily. Specifically:
1. The bundling of applications, i.e. packing up multiple services, their 1. Applications are bundled. I.e. multiple services, their binaries and all
binaries and all their dependencies in an image, and running them their dependencies are packaged in an image, and are run directly from it.
directly from it.
2. Stricter default security policies, i.e. sand-boxing of applications. 2. Stricter default security policies, i.e. sand-boxing of applications.
The primary tool for interfacing with "portable services" is the new The primary tool for interacting with Portable Services is `portablectl`,
"portablectl" program. It's currently shipped in /usr/lib/systemd/portablectl and they are managed by the `systemd-portabled` service.
(i.e. not in the `$PATH`), since it's not yet considered part of the officially
supported systemd interfaces — it's a preview still after all.
Portable services don't bring anything inherently new to the table. All they do Portable services don't bring anything inherently new to the table. All they do
is put together known concepts in a slightly nicer way to cover a specific set is put together known concepts in a slightly nicer way to cover a specific set