When the big debate about systemd was going on, I couldn't really care less. In fact, I thought a future where the big distros used the same init system was a rosy one. No need to have to rewrite some init script to yet another system depending on the flavour of my clients. No need for our config management tools to have a gazallion 'if os == foo' statements.

Now, I'm just not so sure. The feature creep here is remarkable. Why on earth would systemd have anything to do with container management? Surely the 'docker' (or whatever) service which systemd is supposed to be managing should be doing this?

Another nail in the coffin of simple software that does one thing well.

Edit: s/docker/container management/