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


From: Gábor Boskovits
Subject: Re: [GSOC 2020] Guix Deploy, round 2!
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 06:58:58 +0100

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 8., Vas 23:10):
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.

These are both great ideas. It would be also nice to access these in a single machine setup. I don't know where to implement this, it might make sense to add these to the common part of deploy and reconfigure. IIRC we also discussed the idea of a local deployer to be able handle the deploy node the same way as the rest. Regarding the roles thing it would be nice to get a discussion going regarding the interface, so that we have an idea how it should look like. Wdyt?

Ludo’.
Best regards,
g_bor


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