bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> In <http://elephly.net/posts/2015-04-17-gnu-guix.html>, Ricardo notes:
>
>   At some point I think it would make sense to enhance Guix such that
>   RPCs can be made over SSH, so that explicit logging on to a management
>   machine is no longer necessary.
>
> We should see exactly how much support is needed.
>
> Is ‘socat’ enough, as suggested in
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00680.html>?
> That means there would be no authentication, but maybe that’s acceptable
> in a cluster that is isolated on its own LAN anyway.
>
> Option #2 would be to augment (guix store) and guix-daemon so that there
> is built-in support for TCP sockets, which would be slightly more
> convenient.
>
> Option #3 would be to make (guix store) SSH-capable, with Guile-SSH.
> But it sounds like SSH would incur relatively high latency when
> connecting to the daemon.

I think this is fixed by this series of commits:

  285f63e80 * store: Support 'ssh://' URIs in 'GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET'.
  e53783372 * ssh: Decompose 'connect-to-remote-daemon'.
  615c5298f * ssh: Move 'open-ssh-session' to (guix ssh).
  ba97e454b * offload: Avoid using '_' as a 'match' pattern.
  3dff90ce3 * store: Add support for remote connections via 'guix://' URIs.
  3b5cd17a9 * store: Add 'system-error-to-connection-error' macro.
  1397b422e * store: 'GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET' can now be a URI.

with the caveats given here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00487.html

Closing!

Ludo’.