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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Joshua Marshall <j.marshall@arroyo.io>
Subject: Declarative containers
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:19:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhphft98.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgvbz40f.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (Giovanni Biscuolo's message of "Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:40:00 +0100")

Hello,

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> skribis:

> having that, the "last mile" in *obsoleting* tools like Docker &
> Co. (e.g. kubernetes, even openstack probably) is to have a declarative
> way to setup containers, something like `containers.<name>` from NixOS
> [1]

[...]

> [1] https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-declarative-containers

Given that we already have ‘guix system container’, declarative
containers are a low hanging fruit.  We could have a ‘container’ (or
‘sub-system’?) service; you’d pass it an <operating-system> and it’d
create a Shepherd service that runs that OS in a container.

That would be fun!

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-26 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-22 17:47 Feature requests Joshua Marshall
2019-03-22 22:30 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-03-23 14:01   ` Joshua Marshall
2019-03-23 14:36     ` Julien Lepiller
2019-03-25  9:40 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-03-25 17:38   ` Joshua Marshall
2019-03-26 17:19   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-03-26 21:49     ` Declarative containers Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-03-27 11:18       ` Ludovic Courtès

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