Re: Guix "ops"

[David Thompson]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps one addition eventually would be to allow IPs to be
> automatically allocated and have host name lookup DTRT in each VM.

Do you have any idea how we could do that for local VMs?  There's no
daemon managing the provision of these resources, so I don't know what
strategy can be used to automatically allocate static IPs.

The automagic hostname lookup part is particularly interesting to me.  A
more complete deployment configuration would have the web server
dependent on the db server.  I originally intended to handle this by
delaying the creation of the web server until after the db server was
made, and invoking a procedure that accepted the db server's state as
input and output the correct configuration for the web server.

Thinking out loud here: Maybe 'guix deploy' can kick off the
provisioning for all machines first, and afterwards the OS configs can
be altered to include the correct /etc/hosts file.

> As discussed on IRC, I was unsure about OpenStack, but I’ll trust your
> judgment.  Maybe Cyril can comment?

I threw out OpenStack because it's a self-hostable, free software VM
platform.  I'm open to any other platforms that will exercise the full
range of capabilities that 'guix deploy' needs to be useful.

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David Thompson
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