Even though there is some dissatisfaction with systemd in the sysadmin community, James Nugent, an engineer at Samsung Research, shows why it largely fulfills its primary purposes.
In this talk he takes a tour of the great, and sometimes unappreciated or lesser-known features of systemd. He also explains how it can be paired with Packer and Terraform as a component of self-healing systems, and how it can also be used in a production-grade Consul cluster.