[cestith]

The systemd init system is quite the Trojan horse, though. I prefer it greatly to SystemV init. Most of the rest of systemd varies from unremarkable to problematic in my opinion.

One bright spot is systemd-networkd allows one to change quite a few things about interfaces in the way server automation platforms expect to work without doing a network restart. The workaround otherwise on, say, CentOS was always to write the new config file used by future restarts, also run CLI commands to update things in memory, and be sure to tell the service not to trigger a restart on the config file(s) changing. Otherwise if you’re doing something like streaming UDP video your own automation can become a reliability issue.