Na, that&#x27;s not how it works at all.  When you run a docker container, you&#x27;ll be running your app directly, thus systemd won&#x27;t be involved and isn&#x27;t even needed within the container.<p>The problem with debian and centos is they weren&#x27;t create with containers in mind, thus by default their base images pull in a lot of stuff that&#x27;s required to actually init hardware.<p>We can see with fedora that efforts have been made to slim it down, I suspect as containers become a popular usecase we&#x27;re going to see smaller base containers, except with access to 30,000 stable packages and a mainstream community.