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diff --git a/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi b/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi index 654a723..43c9118 100644 --- a/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi +++ b/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi @@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ # Each shepherd service needs its own guix profile. -Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on Penguin2, as user shepherd) who are using the global shepherd guix profile and loading guix-bioinformatics at service start time to start their services. This is bad because: +UPDATE: genecup is now running as a container on tux02. This is a model for getting rid of guix profiles. Note that we +do need to fixate guix-bioinformatics and guix-past channels *per* service. Otherwise updates are impossible. + +In time we may move to hosting these services in a guix system container (a VM). + +Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on tux02, as user shepherd) who are using the global shepherd guix profile and loading guix-bioinformatics at service start time to start their services. This is bad because: * we aren't using per-service guix-bioinformatics worktrees, so the branch changes between service refreshes * service start times are high because we have to rebuild the service (due to above) * services which are restarted are in an "untested" state until they work + ## Services which need to be migrated: * covid19-pubseq (uses shared (broken!) guix profile, uses shared config directory)(currently running by hand by Pjotr) @@ -22,6 +28,9 @@ Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on Penguin2, as user shepherd) ## Services which already have their own profile: +Note that the profiles essentially just contain the guix binary, acting like a time machine. It is +used to fire up a guix shell/environment: + * bnw * cronjob-gitea * cronjob-pubmed (genecup) @@ -34,8 +43,8 @@ Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on Penguin2, as user shepherd) ## Tags -* assigned: efraim +* assigned: efraim, pjotrp * type: bug -* status: unclear +* status: in progress * priority: high * keywords: shepherd, system administration |