From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Swineherd: Guix System container manager
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:14:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZvPv221Y8wooBNxCXBD1e3pnCv3oHEmFfs1mEmA9J4Nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f88fcd20-51a9-e041-9670-2c12d5f2c421@gmail.com>
Hey, nice job Ricardo! This looks awesome!
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 11:29 AM Katherine Cox-Buday
<cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/13/23 3:06 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > you know the Shepherd: it is an elegant service manager looking after a
> > herd of daemons. Since it can be extended with Guile, I decided to do
> > just that to add an extra skill to the Shepherd, turning it into the
> > Swineherd.
> >
> > The Swineherd is a manager of Guix System containers. It is implemented
> > as a Shepherd service called “swineherd” that lets you manage Guix
> > System containers as Shepherd services. These system container services
> > implement a few common features to bring up bridge networking, execute
> > commands inside the containers, peek at files, and get simple usage
> > stats.
> >
> > Swineherd also provides an optional HTTP API server to launch, manage,
> > and destroy containers through an HTTP client. This makes the Swineherd
> > useful for building web applications that launch Guix System containers
> > on demand. It comes with an Info manual describing the assumptions, the
> > required setup, as well as the implemented commands and the HTTP API.
> >
> > The Swineherd was designed to be used with Shepherd on foreign distros,
> > so it does not assume to be running on top of Guix System (for better or
> > worse).
> >
> > You can find the code here:
> >
> > https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/swineherd
> >
> > Of course the Swineherd is also available as a Guix package called
> > “swineherd”.
> >
> > If this tickles your interests I’d be very happy to hear your comments
> > and incorporate patches to extend it beyond my original requirements.
>
> This is really cool stuff! I'd love to see Guix continue to eat the
> dev-ops space, which, in my opinion, loves to stack complexity on top of
> complexity.
+1 to that. I did devops professionally for about 6 years and it
really is a mess.
> Can you share any ways you're currently using this?
>
> Any plans/interest in hooking it into `guix deploy`?
Hey now that's a cool idea!
Speaking of devops, I believe with swineherd it is now possible to
implement something I've wanted for many years: the Guix equivalent of
docker-compose. It would be like an enhanced guix shell that also
starts up services needed for development like PostgreSQL or Redis or
whatever.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-13 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-13 9:06 Swineherd: Guix System container manager Ricardo Wurmus
2023-09-13 12:58 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-14 6:42 ` Tanguy LE CARROUR
2023-09-14 9:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-09-13 15:29 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-13 16:14 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2023-09-13 18:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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