30 October 2025
Feringa Building
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

I Can't Believe It's Not a VM! systemd-nspawn Containers Demystified

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30 Oct 2025, 14:00
45m
Main Auditorium (Partition 1) (Feringa Building)

Main Auditorium (Partition 1)

Feringa Building

In Practice In Practice

Speaker

Onno Ebbinge

Description

What if you could launch a full OS environment—with systemd, networking, persistent storage—in and full package management in milliseconds, not minutes? systemd-nspawn containers blur the line between containers and VMs, offering a drop-in, near-native performance without hypervisors.

In this talk, I’ll show you how to:
- Howto build and deploy VM-like nspawn containers
- Replace resource-heavy VMs with drop-in lightweight nspwan containers
- Boot a fully isolated Debian/RedHat/Arch systems ultra small and ultra fast
- Deploy nspawn containers seamlessly alongside your VM's

Walk away ready to deploy your first "VM-like" container before the next coffee break.

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