Re: Enterprise Guix Hosting?

[Benjamin Slade]

Not something I've tried personally, but maybe PantherX (Guix-based) could be 
relevant here? https://www.pantherx.org/

30 Jul 2022 17:18:13 Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>:

> Oh wow!! Thank you everyone!!!    I will definitely show our conversation 
> thread to my partners - in fact, right now!!!   Let's make it happen!!
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2022, at 01:20, Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Olivier Dion via writes:
>> 
>>>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2022, Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> wrote:
>>>> I have been exposed to the world of Docker images and Continuous
>>>> Integration that seem spend most of the time downloading and building
>>>> them 😅
>>> 
>>> Yup.  Tons of energy wasted and pollution generated.
>>> 
>>>> Have you heard of Guix Hosting services jusy like the Docker or Github
>>>> companies target enterprises customers?
>>> 
>>> IMO Guix is still very niche.  Only a handful of Unix enthusiasms /
>>> scientifics use it and companies are not in yet.  I might be wrong.
>> 
>> I introduced Guix to a company called Quantile where I work as the
>> Head of Enterprise Architecture.  Docker would have been the typical
>> mainstream alternative, but for the reasons you say and others Guix was
>> considered a more complete solution to a whole engineering ecosystem.
>> Nix was also considered, but we went with Guix in the end.
>> 
>> We have integrated it into our standard Jenkins pipeline and AWS cloud,
>> and it plays a central role both in how developers work (eg replacing
>> Python's virtual environments) and how software is deployed by our CI/CD 
>> system.
>> 
>> It was a bit of a punt, given Guix is not yet widely used outside
>> academia, but it ticked all the boxes, performed well in PoC tests, and
>> seemed like a solid tech decision - and one I'm still very pleased I made!
>> 
>> We've done a few talks on our setup and integration with more standard
>> commercial tooling - in case you haven't seen these they might be of 
>> interest:
>> https://www.cloudbees.com/videos/purely-functional-ci-cd-pipeline-using-jenkins-with-guix
>> https://xana.lepiller.eu/guix-days-2022/guix-days-2022-guix-aws-lambda.mkv
>> 
>> I'm always very interested in any discussions regarding Guix use in
>> mainstream and commerical projects - I think it has a bright future in
>> this space.
>> 
>> 
>> Phil