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* A friendlier API for operating-system declarations
@ 2023-03-23  8:06 Edouard Klein
  2023-03-23 18:48 ` Josselin Poiret
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 30+ messages in thread
From: Edouard Klein @ 2023-03-23  8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Dear Guixers,

For my clients and my own use, I use a layer on top of operating-system
declarations in which I create functions that take an os as a first
argument, and return an os.

With the help of the handy -> macro, I can chain them, thus allowing an
easy stacking of multiple "roles" or "functionalities" on the same
machine, and an easy transfer of said functionality to another machine:
just cut and paste one line from one declaration to the other.

I have written a tutorial for my clients here:

https://guix-hosting.com/docs/tuto/getting-started.html

that gives an example of what an os configuration may look like:
#+begin_src scheme
(->
 (minimal-ovh "ssh-rsa AAASomethingSomething== root@minimal-ovh")
 (http-static-content "sub2.example.com" #:to-dir "/srv/sub2")
 (http-static-content "sub1.example.com" #:to-dir "/srv/sub1/")
 (add-services my-db))
#+end_src

The code of the function is on my channel:
https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/guix/-/blob/beaverlabs/beaver/system.scm

After a few months of experience, and positive feedback from my clients,
my question to you guys is: would you be interested in mainlining this,
or should I keep my development efforts separate in my channel ?

I do think this API is easier than manipulating services, and although
extendable services are awesome and a very nifty piece of engineering,
they require quite a good knowledge of scheme and take a while to be
used to, while this new API, while way less powerful, lowers the barrier
to entry for newcomers.

They are an easy way to maintain a declarative whole operating system
configuration, with a syntax similar enough to docker and ansible that
sysadmins familiar with it can quickly get up and running, thus exposing
more people to Guix.

What do you think ?

Cheers,

Edouard.


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2023-03-23  8:06 A friendlier API for operating-system declarations Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 18:48 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-03-23 20:23   ` Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 21:05 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-04-13  9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-18 14:37   ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 21:43 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 22:50   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-25 20:14     ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-26  5:36       ` Michal Atlas
2023-11-26 16:49       ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-26 18:32         ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-26 20:46           ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-27 21:09             ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-29 20:12               ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-29 23:39                 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-30 11:16                   ` Attila Lendvai
2023-12-01 18:18                     ` Michal Atlas
2024-02-01 13:29                     ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-02-01 19:43                       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-01 20:30                         ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 20:46                           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-02 20:11                             ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 21:02                           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-02 19:36                             ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 20:21                               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-02-02 21:25                                 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02  0:03                       ` Introducing Guix "Features"! Carlo Zancanaro
2024-02-18 15:07                       ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Edouard Klein
2023-12-09 10:12         ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Ludovic Courtès

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