Hi! Thanks!
I just realised I missed the cafe guix from 2w ago about specifically that topic (https://hpc.guix.info/events/2022/café-guix/), will the slides be made available at some point? Who was giving the talk? Etienne On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 10:28 PM Felix Lechner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Etienne, > > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 5:38 AM Etienne B. Roesch > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am working my way through our IT department to convince them to > provide guix as a > > service to our researchers. > > Congratulations! You should find some like-minded folks here. > > > Specifically, we provide vms as a service and we also have a shared > slurm resource. > > One question I haven’t managed to answer fully is about system-wide > configurations. > > We currently use puppet to pull configs on the fly and various scripts > to turn on or off > > services. > > I use neither puppet, slurm or a lot of VMs and am therefore not a > good person to address your questions. I hope someone else steps up to > help you out. > > > What is the recommended way to do this with guix system? > > I am not sure it's possible to combine Guix System with such a setup. > > > Does guix system play nicely with packages installed outside of guix? > > Guix System will tolerate static third-party binaries that rely solely > on system calls. Providing prerequisites to scripts or dynamically > linked third-party software, however, may be a challenge. > > Most Guix packaging replaces paths to prerequisites by absolute paths > into our store. It happens when packages are built. There are ways to > fake a standard Linux file system hierarchy, but I have not used it. > > > The alternative of simply using guix on a host debian is appealing, of > course. > > I would start with that. > > You will lose out on some benefits in the beginning, but the goodwill > you will swiftly earn with your IT department may allow you to switch > to Guix System later. Guix System is an IT administrator's dream. Just > make sure they see the "roll-back" features at some point. > > Please have a good week also, and thank you for promoting Guix! > > Kind regards > Felix >
