Re: Enterprise Guix Hosting?

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Hi Olivier,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 7:42 AM Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:
> > Hey that's a real nice starting point for a container management tool!
> >  So maybe there should be a system service to manage containers and
> > then a 'docker compose'-like tool for declaratively specifying
> > containers and their network bridging configuration that is a client
> > of the service?
>
> I think that a container composer à la `docker compose' but with
> Guile/Guix is easily done. Managing containers locally is trivial and a
> little web interface could be done to view/manager your contrainers.
> The service could even be a home-service.
>
> From there, a more mature container orchestrator that can scale
> to multiple nodes could be made.  Competing with Kubernetes.  Of course
> at that level things are not trivial anymore.

Just thinking about making something on the level of Kubernetes makes
me want to hide under a desk, but that is certainly more in line with
the subject of this email thread. :)

So who's going to start selling Guix Enterprise subscriptions?  It
would be a lot of fun.  You could have Guix Solution Architects and
other fun corporate titles!

- Dave