SystemD's Creator Opens Signups for Private Preview of Amutable's Cryptographically Verified Linux Systems
SystemD creator Lennart Poettering left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022, but 10 months ago left to co-found Amutable a company that aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that stay trusted over time. It's FOSS calls it "a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state" — and signups are now open for a private preview: Before announcing…
Lennart Poettering, the creator of SystemD, left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022 before co-founding Amutable. The company aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that remain trusted over time. Amutable's service provides signed reports of a machine's state, which are verified by the company's control plane. This ensures that all changes to the system involve updating every machine in the fleet with a new signed image, as there is no package manager or interactive shell.
Amutable's images come with a software bill of materials (SBOM) and are built from pinned inputs of the chosen distribution, such as Fedora or CentOS Stream. The control plane uses systemd-report, a feature in systemd 260 that Amutable helped develop, to compare the declared state with each machine's actual state and flag any deviations.
Amutable is currently seeking teams that manage Linux fleets and need to demonstrate the state of each machine. The company expects to onboard its first design partners, as it calls them, over the coming weeks.
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