Re: Advice about GuixSD on Serveraptor?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> For example, the Amazon EC2 service provides web APIs that one can call
> to import an existing VM image into the service.  One can then launch
> EC2 instances (virtual machines) from that image.  I'm sure that some
> other services have similar APIs.  With Guix, we can declaratively
> configure the entire operating system (including the pre-installation of
> SSH credentials to enable remote access) and build an image (or a VM) of
> that system.  In theory, it should be possible to create a tool (e.g.,
> "guix deploy") which not only creates the precise system image you want
> from an operating system configuration file, but also imports it into a
> hosting service, like Amazon EC2, and provisions a virtual (or physical)
> machine from that image.

Yes, I think that’s one of the targets David had in mind for ‘guix
deploy’.

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> Currently, I don't think Guix has the features necessary to support this
> kind of programmatic importation of GuixSD systems into service
> providers like Amazon EC2.  But the potential is there, and it's good to
> think big.

Right, ‘guix deploy’ doesn’t exist yet.  That said, the branch is there
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-deploy> with
interfaces meant to support deployment to physical machines over SSH,
VMs, containers, etc., though the only backend available is VMs at this
point.

I think it’s about time to revive this branch!

Ludo’.