From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: David Dashyan <mail@davie.li>
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cloud-init?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:45:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnalvqjj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edx2hm2c.fsf@davie.li> (David Dashyan's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:29:04 +0200")
Hello!
David Dashyan <mail@davie.li> skribis:
> I've been interested in adding cloud-init support for a while already.
> It would make Guix much easier to use in a cloud setting. I did ask
> people weather anyone is interested in it couple of times in #guix and
> also mentioned it on the mailing list couple of times. People didn't
> seem to express much interest but once they have it they'll like it a
> lot I think :) It is common practice to spawn other distro type and turn
> it into Guix or install Guix on it and do "guix system init" on mounted
> volume and then swap them. Not to mention the fact that every now and
> then there is a new question on running Guix on some other vendor. Guix
> deploy was made exactly for that in mind, wasn't it?
Yes! It may be that the intersection of cloud/devops people and Guix
people is still too small (for one, I know ‘guix deploy’ but I’m just
discovering ‘cloud-init’), but work in this area would be very welcome,
precisely so Guix can become more useful in this area. It’s a
chicken-and-egg problem that you can help address. :-)
Would it be an option to add a ‘guix deploy’ backend for cloud-init?
There are currently two backends under gnu/machine/*.scm. This would
add a third one that uses cloud-init to perform deployment.
Does that make sense?
If there’s interest in it, I’m happy to provide guidance for the code.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-02 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-26 8:15 cloud-init? Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-08-26 15:29 ` cloud-init? David Dashyan
2022-09-02 13:45 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-12-29 15:31 ` cloud-init? Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-09-02 15:15 ` [EXT] cloud-init? Thompson, David
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