Hi! Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis:
> For example, the Amazon EC2 service provides web APIs that one can call > to import an existing VM image into the service. One can then launch > EC2 instances (virtual machines) from that image. I'm sure that some > other services have similar APIs. With Guix, we can declaratively > configure the entire operating system (including the pre-installation of > SSH credentials to enable remote access) and build an image (or a VM) of > that system. In theory, it should be possible to create a tool (e.g., > "guix deploy") which not only creates the precise system image you want > from an operating system configuration file, but also imports it into a > hosting service, like Amazon EC2, and provisions a virtual (or physical) > machine from that image. Yes, I think that’s one of the targets David had in mind for ‘guix deploy’. [...] > Currently, I don't think Guix has the features necessary to support this > kind of programmatic importation of GuixSD systems into service > providers like Amazon EC2. But the potential is there, and it's good to > think big. Right, ‘guix deploy’ doesn’t exist yet. That said, the branch is there <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-deploy> with interfaces meant to support deployment to physical machines over SSH, VMs, containers, etc., though the only backend available is VMs at this point. I think it’s about time to revive this branch! Ludo’.
