Automated system upgrade

Automated system upgrade

[Jimmy Thrasibule]

Hi,

I would like to know about the best way one would automate a Guix system
reconfiguration. The idea is to put the system configuration stanza into a
Git repository and then having the systems regularly pull from this
repository and reconfigure.

The way I see it so far would take the following steps:

1. Create a Guix package with all the system configuration (the package can
call guix system reconfigure after install).
2. Create a Guix pull channel.
3. Have the system automatically pulling the latest revision. (??)
4. Repeat.

Does this plan is looking sane to you and how can I regularly pull the
system's repository? Maybe using a service or a cron job?

Regards,
Jimmy

Re: Automated system upgrade

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello,

Jimmy Thrasibule <jimmy.thrasibule@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020.
febr. 3., H, 13:37):
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know about the best way one would automate a Guix system
> reconfiguration. The idea is to put the system configuration stanza into a
> Git repository and then having the systems regularly pull from this
> repository and reconfigure.
>
> The way I see it so far would take the following steps:
>
> 1. Create a Guix package with all the system configuration (the package can
> call guix system reconfigure after install).
> 2. Create a Guix pull channel.
> 3. Have the system automatically pulling the latest revision. (??)
> 4. Repeat.
>

There is no need for 1 and 2.

> Does this plan is looking sane to you and how can I regularly pull the
> system's repository? Maybe using a service or a cron job?

You should create a service which updates a repo from the cron job and
then reconfigure.

There is something like this on berlin, you can have a look at the config
in the maintenance repository. Look for static-website-service. Hope
this helps.

>
> Regards,
> Jimmy


Best regards,
g_bor
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Re: Automated system upgrade

[sirgazil]

 ---- On Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:16:17 -0500 Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote ----
 > Hello,
 > 
 > Jimmy Thrasibule <jimmy.thrasibule@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020.
 > febr. 3., H, 13:37):
 > >
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > I would like to know about the best way one would automate a Guix system
 > > reconfiguration. The idea is to put the system configuration stanza into a
 > > Git repository and then having the systems regularly pull from this
 > > repository and reconfigure.
 > >
 > > The way I see it so far would take the following steps:
 > >
 > > 1. Create a Guix package with all the system configuration (the package can
 > > call guix system reconfigure after install).
 > > 2. Create a Guix pull channel.
 > > 3. Have the system automatically pulling the latest revision. (??)
 > > 4. Repeat.
 > >
 > 
 > There is no need for 1 and 2.
 > 
 > > Does this plan is looking sane to you and how can I regularly pull the
 > > system's repository? Maybe using a service or a cron job?
 > 
 > You should create a service which updates a repo from the cron job and
 > then reconfigure.
 > 
 > There is something like this on berlin, you can have a look at the config
 > in the maintenance repository. Look for static-website-service. Hope
 > this helps.

I'm interested in that information too, thanks, Gábor.

I think the name of the service is static-web-site. This is maintenance repository:

$ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/maintenance.git

And the service seems to be defined in "hydra/modules/sysadmin/web.scm" (check for static-web-site-service-type).