Re: [GSOC 2020] Guix Deploy, round 2!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Chris!

Christopher Lemmer Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> Let me also put out a goal for the Guix community: I think we'll see
> Guix Deploy as a success if a bunch of us can switch over to using it on
> our own servers (that includes me).  To that end, I'd love to know, how
> many people are doing so, or have attempted to do so?  What features
> would you like/need?

We’re using it for the build farm, and I’m also using it for a couple of
single servers.  It’s great!  :-)

What I miss the most, especially on the build farm, is the ability to
tell ‘guix deploy’ which services to restart upon completion.
Currently, like ‘guix system reconfigure’, it conservatively doesn’t
restart any running services.  However, often, you’d like it to run
“herd restart X” upon completion.

Another thing discussed at the Guix Days, but more relevant to more
advanced use cases, is the ability to define “roles”: often you’d rather
want to think in terms of the services machines offer and abstract over
the actual machines.

Ludo’.