On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 10:50:13AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Hartmut Goebel writes: > > > Am 04.10.2016 um 16:12 schrieb Pjotr Prins: > >> I would like a replacement for non-deterministic Cfengine/Chef and the > >> like. I wrote Cfruby once - one reason we still support Ruby 1.8 in > >> Guix ;). Time to replace it on my machines. > > > > I already had the vision about having something like debops > > (www.debops.org) using the GuixSD mechanisms. > > > > (For those of you who do not know debops: It is a collection of more > > then 100 roles (or receipts) for Ansible.) > > The deployability dream is what originally drew me to Guix, and then > GuixSD. Originally I was planning on something separate, Guile based > but able to deploy Debian and etc type systems. > > Un/fortunately I think the main advantage to Guix as a deployment system > seems to be if you're really going "all out" and can reproducibly build > the whole thing with it.
I know. I would love it and am close to switching on my laptop - but reality still has me deploying on existing systems. > Otherwise, what can you do? I guess you could still build *some* > configuration, like apache configs and etc, but you'd still need to set > up your base system to know to point at the current profile, or whatever > you'd do... > That would be OK. If can configure /etc/sshd_config to something in Guix that would work. My main problem is that I don't know how to start :) Tonight star gazing - perfect sky in NL. Pj. --
