Re: guix pack and exposing ports

["Todor Kondić" <tk.code@protonmail.com>]

Thanks Edouard!

So far I'm trying to follow the route where additional things are built on top of the existing image. Also managed to trim the image to a very bearable ~150Mb once I trimmed the manifest to bare necessities.

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On Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at 11:40 AM, Edouard Klein <edou@rdklein.fr> wrote:

> Hi !
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> From what I know, with guix pack you can only have the dependencies in
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> the docker image, but you won't have anything to start or manage your
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> software automatically. You need to invoke the correct command (with
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> docker run, I believe).
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> What you can do is create an operating-system declaration and use the
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> guix system docker-image subcommand. Note that this is way more
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> involved, as you need to create a shepherd service for your software.
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> I quickly ran into docker limitations following this route, but
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> depending on what you want to do this may be the way to go.
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> The alternative is to use the guix pack image as the base image in a
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> standard dockerfile.
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> As for the size of the image, see this thread
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> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-07/msg00064.html
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> Good luck
>
> Todor Kondić writes:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > Please bear with me since I am not that very docker savvy. As far as I understand, normally, one can expose certain ports in a docker description file. But, how to do that when using `guix pack -f docker` command where the docker recipe is hidden from the user?
> >
> > Also, I note I'm getting ~10 GiG image for a flimsy program depending on R and shiny. Somehow that doesn't feel right. :)