worldofgeese

I'm the author. With 5 years experience as a DevOps Engineer then Lead, I've wanted, for a very long time, to distill my critique and pave a way toward a healthier practice of DevOps. Before anyone jumps to tell me how DevOps Engineer is a misnomer, I address this in the article.

I wrote this piece because DevOps has all too often been misunderstood as a practice. Here I attempt to examine successful DevOps practice as a sociotechnical solution that weds culture and tools (the DevOps most are familiar with) with radical agency and visibility. I reference some stupendous thinkers in this space, like Jabe Bloom and Andrew Clay Shafer who were the first to argue for a sociotechnical approach to our work as IT professionals.

I thought this was really cool: it's backed by a non-profit and one of their supported distros is Guix System!

OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!

My error message when trying to run minikube from a guix shell is bash: /gnu/store/ixry3pdrrb52mdiypmlrdn19c7gcc5r4-minikube-1.31.2/bin/minikube: No such file or directory

According to ldd and file, it looks like everything is hunky dory as far as where all my linkers are pointing. I'm also including an strace further below. I've run out of options for debugging this and would welcome any feedback and suggestions!

ldd shows what looks like clean RPATHs:

 /gnu/store/gsjczqir1wbz8p770zndrpw4rnppmxi3-glibc-2.35/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9299546000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /gnu/store/gsjczqir1wbz8p770zndrpw4rnppmxi3-glibc-2.35/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9299541000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /gnu/store/gsjczqir1wbz8p770zndrpw4rnppmxi3-glibc-2.35/lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f929952e000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /gnu/store/gsjczqir1wbz8p770zndrpw4rnppmxi3-glibc-2.35/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9299744000)

Here's file:

/gnu/store/xhyv7k87gy9k368yrv6faray37z615cr-minikube-1.31.2/bin/minikube: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /gnu/store/gsjczqir1wbz8p770zndrpw4rnppmxi3-glibc-2.35/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, Go BuildID=aBEWfkldQzf4mlUsITym/a6aHGcy9omlZPRTvR8ta/1-lUpI-DPce979zTpJQy/jMuF_0TfmkRW2e3NFst2, not stripped

And strace:

Error:
strace /gnu/store/xhyv7k87gy9k368yrv6faray37z615cr-minikube-1.31.2/bin/minikube
execve("/gnu/store/xhyv7k87gy9k368yrv6faray37z615cr-minikube-1.31.2/bin/minikube", ["/gnu/store/xhyv7k87gy9k368yrv6fa"...], 0x7ffc5f304810 /* 109 vars */) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x50b7000
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f2daf26c000
***
SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_ACCERR, si_addr=0x400318}
***
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Segmentation fault

    (define-module (worldofguix packages minikube)
      #:use-module (guix packages)
      #:use-module (guix download)
      #:use-module ((guix licenses) :prefix license:)
      #:use-module (guix gexp)
      #:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
      #:use-module (gnu packages commencement)
      #:use-module (nonguix build-system binary))

    (define-public minikube
      (package
       (name "minikube")
       (version "1.31.2")
       (source (origin
                 (method url-fetch)
                 (uri (string-append "https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v" version "/minikube-linux-amd64"))
                  (sha256
                   (base32
                    "16vi7b6vkapc2w3f2yx8mzany5qqvrgvlshc58dambcn2q2hra48"))))
        (build-system binary-build-system)
        (inputs `((,gcc "lib")
              ,gcc-toolchain))
        (arguments
         (list
          #:substitutable? #f
          #:patchelf-plan
           #~'(("./minikube"
              ("gcc" "gcc-toolchain")))
          #:install-plan
          #~'(("minikube" "bin/"))
          #:phases
          #~(modify-phases %standard-phases
              (replace 'unpack
                (lambda _
                  (copy-file #$source "./minikube")
                  (chmod "minikube" #o644)))
              (add-before 'install 'chmod
                (lambda _
                  (chmod "minikube" #o555))))))
        (home-page "https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/")
        (synopsis "minikube is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters.")
        (description "minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster. minikube's primary goals are to be the best tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit.")
        (license license:asl2.0)))

    minikube