Vermilion

A safe and reliable process manager. The name is derived from the color of paint that is often used as a protective coating on Rust, i.e. this can be used to help protect and run Rust binaries, or any binary.

noun: vermilion; noun: vermillion

    a brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulfide (cinnabar).
        a brilliant red color.
        "a lateral stripe of vermilion"

Goals

• Manage and Execute processes
• Make dependencies declaritive
• Capable of replacing init, or being init, in Unix like environments
• Cross platform capable
• Isolation primitives support (containers, sandboxes, jails, etc) depends on platform
• Only safe Rust for all software components
• Simple to use for single applications, but scalable to large graphs of managed software
• Declaritive extensibility
• Async or event driven startup
• Optional dependent restart driven by parent processes
• Log aggregation and forwarding
• Embeddable in other existing init systems
• User mode and super user (priviledged) modes supported

Non-goals

• Take over the world
• Interprocess communication
• Event bus

Prior work

• Upstart
• systemd
• launchd
• rc