Hi, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
>> I was recently inspired from Nix's oci-container feature and wrote a thin >> wrapper around the docker CLI to enable the management of >> docker containers through Shepherd [0]. This enables handling of non >> packaged services through guix system reconfigure and herd >> start/stop/status . > > Neat! > >> To conclude, I'm not advocating for adding OCI-backed services to Guix >> mainstream: in my opinion they should be bootstrapped and >> built from source, but I believe the actual "backend" implementation for >> such services could be useful to have in Guix. What do you >> think? > > I think this could still be a valuable addition to Guix, because it > integrates with Shepherd and thus unifies management of system services > independent of whether they came from Guix or from elsewhere. I agree, this would be useful to many people I’m sure, in particular to anyone who doesn’t dare switch to Guix System out of fear of not finding a specific service. If there’s a way this could be generalized so others can use it for daemons other than Grafana, that’d be great. Ludo’.
