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From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CTowards?= Guix for =?utf-8?Q?DevOps?=
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Hello,

I just wanted to drop a quick note on the guix deploy work carried out
by Jakob.

I've started using it to manage servers, and it seems to work an
absolute charm.  Congratulations to all involved.

I did hit the following small stumbling blocks:

- When first running guix deploy it complained about a missing
  /etc/guix/signing-key.sec.  I fairly quickly realised that deploy
  probably used archive infrastructure, so figured out how to generate
  the keys.  But maybe the manual should contain a line about this?

- The machine-ssh-configuration allows for the specification of users
  other than root, but my understanding is that only root will allow for
  a successful deployment (because root is required to actually
  reconfigure the target system).  I don't know what conclusions to draw
  from this, as I'm not 100% on the roadmap for development.  But maybe
  for now, this could be a gotcha for new users.

Best wishes,

Alex

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> Jakob wrote a lovely post about the ongoing work implementing =E2=80=98gu=
ix
> deploy=E2=80=99 as part of GSoC:
>
>   https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2019/towards-guix-for-devops/
>
> Check it out!
>
> Ludo=E2=80=99.