From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Docker and singularity containers Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:35:07 +0200 Message-ID: <878t4662lw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180912151616.iwt3kqb77zd76wf6@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g092r-0007pr-2L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:35:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g092m-0007Oa-7m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:35:16 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:37876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g092l-0007MC-N8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:35:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180912151616.iwt3kqb77zd76wf6@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:16:16 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel Hello, Pjotr Prins skribis: > I know this is not a priority right now for maintainers, but I think > it would be really useful if we provide ready-made containers for > certain packages. This will allow people who have the infrastructure > to run containers to start using reproducible Guix builds. With that, > I think there will be an increased interest in our technology. FWIW at work people a colleague of mine got into Guix with the goal of being able to run their software on a different cluster that has Singularity but not Guix. People interested in this might use Guix on their laptop just to build Singularity images and view it as a tool to build bundles (which is of course unsatisfactory but it=E2=80=99s a way to get started!). > Maybe it is something to discuss at FOSDEM, but I wonder what it would > take to have the build farm automatically provide Docker containers > for marked packages and offer them through the web interface. A while back we fantasized about the possibility of having a web service that would produce =E2=80=9Cpacks=E2=80=9D of Guix packages on demand. Tha= t may allow us to be #1 on HN for a couple of hours ;-), but it would also be quite resource-hungry (and the service itself needs to be written to begin with.) Such a service would have to use its own resources IMO, not those of the build farm, which is already busy enough. Ludo=E2=80=99.