Re: Alexon: the easiest tool for cloud native written in Guile

[Nala Ginrut]

Well, it's not the first people who asked me so. As a daily Guix user, I
think Guix bundle can replace Docker image for the container. And the
bootup time is faster than docker image.

So I made a container abstract to support more container implementations in
case I want add other container include Guix as an alternative.

However, there are two factors changed my mind to add Guix in this stage:

1. Docker can create subnet for isolation, but I didn't find the feature in
Guix.

2. Alexon is aiming for commercial product deployment, the customers care
about the software supplychain very much nowadays. Debian/Ubuntu or other
top distros have long term efforts to establish good faith among the
customers, but they still doubt GuixSD as an enterprise level distro in no
more than 10 years.

Anyway, Guix is always the interesting topic, and Alexon is always waiting
for advices or contributions. :-)

Best regards.


On Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 20:29 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> > I'm pleased to introduce the tool Alexon. If you ever work with
> Kubernetes,
> > then Alexon will be your friend.
> >
> > Alexon was written with GNU Guile, which is known for its support of
> > functional programming concepts. As a result, Alexon is influenced by the
> > functional programming paradigm.
>
> Neat!
>
> Do you plan to make it work with Guix so that workers don’t require
> Docker images on a registry but could be deployed from a Guix manifest?
>
> --
> Ricardo
>