From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Antoine Eiche <lewo@abesis.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building container images with nix2container
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:24:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7c3zfmu.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plwjilke.fsf@tilia>
Antoine Eiche <lewo@abesis.fr> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> We have "guix pack" as part of Guix. It builds Docker or squashfs
>> images as well as various other formats. What does nix2container offer
>> beyond what we have?
>
> I acutally don't know how you currently build Docker images. But if
> nix2container brings something, i think it would mainly be
> optimizations (time and space).
>
> Does your built images contains several layers?
Yes. See
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-26 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-24 9:27 Building container images with nix2container Antoine Eiche
2024-02-25 10:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-26 10:09 ` Antoine Eiche
2024-02-26 10:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2024-02-26 17:33 ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-08 10:31 ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-17 17:32 ` Antoine Eiche
2024-03-17 17:09 ` Antoine Eiche
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