Re: Public guix offload server

[zimoun]

Hi Arun,

On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 at 11:19, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:

>> Imagine another Cuirass instance where any committer could add [1] their
>> own branch.  It would act as this minimal job submission API.

> I don't think we need Cuirass. We could just use the remote guix-daemon
> features that are already in Guix.

This is exactly what I have in mind.  Especially, we asked the
difference between a remote offload server and a shared store on
cluster. :-)

>From my understanding, Tobias’s point is that…

> $ export GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=ssh://charlie@sandbox.guix.gnu.org:22
> $ guix build foo

…requires an SSH access by ’charlie’ to sandbox.guix.gnu.org,  And they
think this access is risky.


Cheers,
simon