0-core

The core of Zero-OS is 0-core, which is the Zero-OS replacement for systemd.

Branches

• 0.9.0
• 0.10.0
• 0.11.0
• 1.0.0
• 1.1.0-alpha2 - last release

Releases

See the release schedule in the Zero-OS home repository.

Development setup

To run Zero-OS in a Docker container, just run the following command, which will pull the needed image as well:

docker run --privileged -d --name core -p 6379:6379 g8os/g8os-dev:1.0

To follow the container logs do:

docker logs -f core

Using the Python client

Before using the client make sure the ./pyclient is in your PYTHONPATH.

import client

cl = client.Client(host='<IP address of Docker container running Zero-OS>')

#validate that core0 is reachable
print(cl.ping())

#then u can do stuff like
print(
    cl.system('ps -eF').get()
)

print(
    cl.system('ip a').get()
)

#client exposes more tools for disk, bridges, and container mgmt
print(
    cl.disk.list()
)

Features

v0.9

• Boot the 0-core as init process
• Manage disks
• Create containers
  • Full Namespace isolation
  • Host the root filesystem of the containers via ipfs
  • Network stack dedicated
  • ZeroTier Network integration
  • Use flist file format as root metadata
• Remotly administrate the process
  • via Python client
  • via redis

v0.10

• change datastore for fuse filesystem from ipfs to Zero-OS Store.

v0.11

• include of the monitoring of all processes running on the Zero-OS. It produces aggregated statistics on the processes that can be dump into a time series database and displayed used something like Grafana.

v1.0.0

• New Flist format, the flist used in the 0-fs is now a distributed as a RocksDB database.
• Creation of the 0-Hub, see https://github.com/zero-os/0-hub
• Improvement of the builtin commands of 0-core and coreX

v1.1.0-alpha2

• Lots and lots of bug fixes
• Containers plugins
• Unprivileged containers (still in beta)
• Libvirt bindings
• Processes API
• Support multiple ZeroTier in container networking
• Support Open vSwitch networking for both containers and KVM domains
• corectl command line tool to manage Zero-OS from within the node

Next

See the milestones in the Zero-OS home repository: Zero-OS Milestones

Schema

Documentation

All documentation is in the /docs directory, including a table of contents.

In Getting Started with Core0 you find the recommended path to quickly get up and running.