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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better support remote deployment
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:59:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cywstqwj.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzr1bivx.fsf@lease-up.com>


Hi Felix,

> On Wed, Nov 01 2023, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
>> What do you think about changing “guix package” and/or “guix copy” to
>> better support deployment of remote profiles?
>
> As someone who uses 'guix deploy' all the time. I believe remote
> administration is one of our core strengths and selling points. Other
> remote administration tools like Ansible or Puppet are probably no
> longer needed when using GNU Guix System.
>
> I currently have only x86_64 equipment deployed, so there is no
> cross-building happening in my setup. Is that the main purpose of your
> proposal?

No, both machines are x86_64.  I think “guix deploy” could benefit from
a way to not only deploy Guix System (which makes the tool primarily
useful for managing hosts, not applications) but also profiles and
containers.

-- 
Ricardo


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-02 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-01 12:19 Better support remote deployment Ricardo Wurmus
2023-11-01 15:20 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-02  9:59   ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2023-11-07 19:07 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-07 19:45   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-11-08  2:12     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-08  2:39       ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-08 14:36         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-09  7:38           ` Efraim Flashner
2023-11-09 15:01             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-16 15:23           ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-11-16 16:47             ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-21  1:33             ` Tomas Volf
2023-11-23  4:24               ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-12-10 13:49             ` Ricardo Wurmus

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