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For questions pertaining to systemd-nspawn, a utility to spawn a command or OS in a light-weight container. Use this tag for questions about systemd-nspawn itself, using systemd-nspawn, or questions about issues arising inside a container spawned by systemd-nspawn where that is significant.

systemd-nspawn is an implementation of a light-weight utility for quickly getting namespaced containers up and running, which unlike a chroot can boot a full Linux operating system. By default, it sets up new IPC, mount, PID, and UTS namespaces for the container.

systemd-nspawn implements the Container Interface specification.

It should not be relied on for security as that is not one of its goals.