From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: paul <goodoldpaul@autistici.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OCI-backed Guix System Services
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:12:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sf788p9w.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07894441-fd4b-a299-d138-5da88c2c42ab@autistici.org>
Hi,
> I was recently inspired from Nix's oci-container feature and wrote a thin wrapper around the docker CLI to enable the management of
> docker containers through Shepherd [0]. This enables handling of non packaged services through guix system reconfigure and herd
> start/stop/status .
Neat!
> To conclude, I'm not advocating for adding OCI-backed services to Guix mainstream: in my opinion they should be bootstrapped and
> built from source, but I believe the actual "backend" implementation for such services could be useful to have in Guix. What do you
> think?
I think this could still be a valuable addition to Guix, because it
integrates with Shepherd and thus unifies management of system services
independent of whether they came from Guix or from elsewhere.
Because integration with Shepherd is nice I wrote the Swineherd which
serves a related need: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/swineherd
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-20 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-20 14:47 OCI-backed Guix System Services paul
2023-09-20 22:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2023-09-20 23:10 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-22 15:23 ` paul
2023-10-02 14:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-02 16:54 ` Alexey Abramov
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