Re: Releasing guix binary in Docker format too?

[zimoun]

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 14:53, Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com> wrote:

>>  Multiple isolated environments on a single host
>>  Preserve volume data when containers are created
>>  Only recreate containers that have changed
>>  Variables and moving a composition between environments

[...]

> For example, a common thing I do with docker-compose is to provide a compose 
> file with a service I'm working on that brings up the service with all its 
> dependencies (eg databases,  proxies, etc.) in a dev configuration, with the 
> source code from the repository mapped into the container and live-reload 
> enabled. That creates a "two-step" dev environment for the service: you clone 
> the repo then run "docker-compose up."

Do you have configuration files of minimal examples?  Just to
understand what you mean using concrete examples.


> Hashicorp has been working on Waypoint[1], a free software tool to extend 
> that concept even further by adding deployment and release capabilities. Now 
> you clone a repo and you have one tool to build, deploy and release the 
> software contained therein.
>
> I'm interested to use Guix for similar purposes, but there are a few primary 
> obstacles in the way:
> 1) I don't have enough experience yet defining systems using Guix similar to 
> what I'd define using docker-compose, and I haven't found documentation or 
> examples yet that makes it seem within reach
> 2) The machines I'm deploying to run Kubernetes, not Guix System, so if I do 
> use Guix to build a bundle for deployment its utility ends when I export to a 
> Docker container image.

Thanks for pointing this out.

> 3) I collaborate with developers who use macOS and Windows and so can't 
> easily install and use Guix.

I speak for myself, the idea is to build Docker images using Guix for this case.

Otherwise, I do not know if it is worth but someone pointed this [1]
for Windows.

1: 
<https://github.com/giuliano108/guix-packages/blob/master/notes/Guix-on-WSL2.md>

All the best,
simon