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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 45835@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45835: (gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:33:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kjdmilu.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2gxuu7m.fsf@gnu.org>


Hi Mathieu,

>> I also wonder if there might not be a better way to deploy Guix quickly,
>> for example by using a relocatable pack of Guix and using “guix copy”
>> instead of executing a shell script.
>
> I think that building a Guix System image and creating a droplet out of
> it using the DigitalOcean API, as I described here[1] would be a better
> solution.

Yes, this seems better than installing Guix on an existing system (which
costs time and possibly expensive bandwidth), and to replace the running
system with it.

FWIW, I wrote Guile AWS[1], which may be useful for doing the same with
AWS as a backend.

-- 
Ricardo

[1]: https://git.elephly.net/?p=software/guile-aws.git




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 23:46 bug#45835: (gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix Ricardo Wurmus
2021-01-13  8:17 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-01-19  8:33   ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2023-10-21 15:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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