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Subject: Declarative containers
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To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Joshua Marshall <j.marshall@arroyo.io>

Hello,

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> skribis:

> having that, the "last mile" in *obsoleting* tools like Docker &
> Co. (e.g. kubernetes, even openstack probably) is to have a declarative
> way to setup containers, something like `containers.<name>` from NixOS
> [1]

[...]

> [1] https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-declarative-containers

Given that we already have =E2=80=98guix system container=E2=80=99, declara=
tive
containers are a low hanging fruit.  We could have a =E2=80=98container=E2=
=80=99 (or
=E2=80=98sub-system=E2=80=99?) service; you=E2=80=99d pass it an <operating=
-system> and it=E2=80=99d
create a Shepherd service that runs that OS in a container.

That would be fun!

Ludo=E2=80=99.