Re: Ansible and GuixOps questions

[rchar01]

An interesting project, thanks for sharing.
In my case I will definitely be able to use it.

Do you think using Guix will allow full replacement of Ansible
(on Guix System or other like Debian)?

Robert.


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On Monday, December 16, 2019 8:35 PM, Pjotr Prins

> Hi Richard,
>
> As it happens I am working on partial deploy to replace the likes of
> Ansible. If you want to help we can make this a killer system. See
>
> http://git.genenetwork.org/pjotrp/guix-notes/src/branch/master/DEPLOY.org
>
> I am planning to post this to mailing list as soon I got machine
> configuration cracked from a package definition.
>
> My X-mas project ;)
>
> Pj.
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:57:02AM +0000, rchar01 wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Probably many admins / DevOps are heavily using Ansible. I also use
> > this solution to configure systems and services (on Debian and CentOS).
> > I would like to transfer infrastructure to the Guix System and some
> > questions arose:
> > -   is there any way to combine Ansible and GuixOps?
> > -   is there any way to continue using Ansible to configure Guix (some in
> >     guile script and some in ansible)?
> > -   would it be possible to generate a guile script (for GuixOps) from
> >     Ansible?
> > -   would it be possible to change the Ansible to talk to the Guix (or
> >     GuixOps) system?
> >
> > Rewriting to Guile (Guix config files):
> > -  Against:
> > ** time consuming
> > ** may require new skills
> > ** only for Guix, Ansible can configure other GNU / Linux systems
> > -  What might the benefits be?
> >
> > Such integration would probably help to transfer from other systems to
> > Guix and enlarge the community.
> > What do you think?
> > Regards,
> > Robert.