---
title: Portable Services Introduction
+category: Concepts
+layout: default
---
# Portable Services Introduction
above, it could consist of this:
```
-/usr/bin/minimald # a statically compiled binary
-/usr/lib/systemd/minimal-test.service # the unit file for the service, with ExecStart=/usr/bin/minimald
-/usr/lib/os-release # an os-release file explaining what this is
-/etc/resolv.conf # empty file to mount over with host's version
-/etc/machine-id # ditto
-/proc/ # empty directory to use as mount point for host's API fs
-/sys/ # ditto
-/dev/ # ditto
-/run/ # ditto
-/tmp/ # ditto
-/var/tmp/ # ditto
+/usr/bin/minimald # a statically compiled binary
+/usr/lib/systemd/system/minimal-test.service # the unit file for the service, with ExecStart=/usr/bin/minimald
+/usr/lib/os-release # an os-release file explaining what this is
+/etc/resolv.conf # empty file to mount over with host's version
+/etc/machine-id # ditto
+/proc/ # empty directory to use as mount point for host's API fs
+/sys/ # ditto
+/dev/ # ditto
+/run/ # ditto
+/tmp/ # ditto
+/var/tmp/ # ditto
```
And that's it.