Failure

So I had a grand vision to set up all the needed infrastructure for my website today, learning GCP and Terraform (technically OpenTofu) along the way - that failed, because after 14 hours of trials and tribulations, it still refuses to work.

Successes despite the above:

• Initialised the Rust crate
• Built it as an OCI container with Nix
• Set up the base OpenTofu stuff

I think what I will be doing next week (because tomorrow is purely for DnD) is going to be merging whatever was of value from the in-progress PR, and discarding the rest. I will leave you with something from this morning - a summary of my research consolidating basically everything I've learnt about working with Docker for the last few years:

Running Containers

The typical flow to run containers on MacOS is to install colima and the docker CLI.

colima start will start a Linux VM via Lima with Docker Engine (by default) inside it, as well as point the Docker CLI to its dockerd. Docker Engine provides the Docker API via dockerd and manages container lifecycles with containerd.

dockerd delegates to containerd to:

• Manage container state (created, running, stopped)
• Pull container images
• Unpack the images into a root filesystem snapshot
• Generate an OCI runtime bundle using the snapshot and a config.json
• Invokes runc to read the bundle and execute the container process

Conclusion

See ya tomorrow!