Blog — Containers
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Comes to Guix Containers
January 6, 2023
GNU Guix is different from most other GNU/Linux distributions and perhaps nowhere is that more obvious than the organization of the filesystem: Guix does not conform to the Filesystem…
Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
May 16, 2018
A year ago we introduced guix pack , a tool that allows you to create “application bundles” from a set of Guix package definitions. On your…
Running system services in containers
April 14, 2017
At FOSDEM, in the awesome Guile track , I briefly demoed a new experimental GuixSD feature as part my talk on system services : the ability to run system services…
Creating bundles with guix pack
March 20, 2017
Guix just got a new command, dubbed guix pack , which we think many developers will find useful. Last week we were celebrating the release of…
Container provisioning with Guix
October 27, 2015
The upcoming release of GNU Guix will feature an implementation of Linux containers named, following Scheme conventions, call-with-container . Containers are a lightweight virtualization technique used…