4 engineers on Hacker News describe using runit first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We run our own services under runit which is started by systemd. Runit works flawlessly.”
endorse · production · petre · 2017-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After we switched to runit, only devs that touched ops knew about it at all. And we all forgot it was there. That's what you want in an ops tool.”
endorse · production · freshhawk · 2015-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Runit does not correctly reap adopted child processes, which is why we run runit under my_init.”
mixed · production · FooBarWidget · 2014-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“together with runit restarting it when it throws an exception I have a solution that hasn't failed me yet.”
endorse · personal · aktau · 2013-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?