Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud

[Ellen Papsch]

Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 18:15 +0100 schrieb Alex Sassmannshausen:
> 
> 
> So I deploy debian, then copy across a script and run that.  This
> takes
> care of turning the debian machine into a guix machine and deploys my
> sys config immediately.
> 
> This is by far the fastest way of deploying to Hetzner VMs I've found
> yet.
> 
> It also means you can use Hetzner's CLI for creating and managing
> your
> VMs.

That sounds nice. I had wondered if there's some sort of FrankenDebian
way but did not pursue it. Given this line in the script:

mv var/guix /var/ && mv gnu /

there seems to be a complete takeover, even better than a FrankenDebian
:-)


> It's on my to do list to create a solid guix deploy server creation
> module for guix.

That would certainly be appreciated.

I'm currently in the process of cementing Guix usage here (for
databases at least). If I succeed and get some time, I might be able to
do a first stab. Though it would be more useful for applications, which
come and go more often than databases. We currently manage apps with
ansible, I already have started lobbying at low rate. But first things
first -- databases!

Best regards