Declarative containers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> skribis:

> having that, the "last mile" in *obsoleting* tools like Docker &
> Co. (e.g. kubernetes, even openstack probably) is to have a declarative
> way to setup containers, something like `containers.<name>` from NixOS
> [1]

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> [1] https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-declarative-containers

Given that we already have ‘guix system container’, declarative
containers are a low hanging fruit.  We could have a ‘container’ (or
‘sub-system’?) service; you’d pass it an <operating-system> and it’d
create a Shepherd service that runs that OS in a container.

That would be fun!

Ludo’.