Investigation: Baremetal Orchestration, Deployment, and How SurrealDB can Enable Infrastructure Flexibility

[andar1an]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I believe due to cost mechanics, and privacy/data requirements due to ML/AI , self-hosting and hybrid deployments will become more common.

I am investigating something I call baremetal orchestration because I believe that WASI will make it possible to minimize network and host complexity due to CNI networking and Virtualization.

2 tools I think may be worth investigating for surrealdb - and subsequently determining how you may want to enable integration and documentation - are Nomad, and Nix. They may be of value in understanding relative to SurrealDB.

Describe the solution

Investigate Nomad due to flexibility in orchestration - not just containers by default.

Investigate installing and configuring SurrealDB through Nix Pkgs, or how it may work with Nix ecosystem.

Alternative methods

Investigate other tools that may enable baremetal orchestration that may be of value to surrealdb ecosystem.

SurrealDB version

NA

Contact Details

stephen@jamminmusic.com

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[andar1an]

I will be investigating this my self, and as always am happy to share what I learn.

[sgirones]

hey @stephenandary, I'll convert this into a Discussion, as it's not an issue per se.

Regarding Nix, we do have Nix packages in the repo, in case you want to check them out.

[andar1an]

Oops, thanks. I didn't know about the discussion section. And that's exciting, will check out today!

[andar1an]

@sgirones pasting the link to repo you mentioned here. This is so wonderful. Thank you.

These 2 nixpkgs also exist.

• surrealdb
• surrealdb-migrations

Is SurrealDB a maintainer on these pkgs?

[naisofly]

Hey @andar1an, these are community contributions and SurrealDB is not a maintainer on these pkgs. Hope this helps!

[andar1an]

Thank you, I finished with my nix investigation some time ago. Tha ks for commenting, I forgot about this and will be sure to close.