cashapp / cashapp/hermit

First class support for creating production bundles

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enhancement
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Go
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Description

A good point was brought up in the announcement post on Lobsters - that while Hermit solves consistent tooling across workstation and CI, it doesn't for deploys. I suggested a couple of workarounds in that thread, but it would be nice for Hermit to provide direct support.

I'm not sure what that would look like in practice? Maybe:

hermit bundle --os=<os> --arch=<arch> <dest> <pkg> [<pkg> ...]

This could create a self-contained tgz or directory with the specified packages and dependencies, bin symlinks, and an activate.sh with all the uninterpolated envars, that does not rely on Hermit at all for runtime.

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Research direction

The issue names no implementation files or tests; start by tracing the proposed hermit bundle entry point and reviewing how packages, dependencies, symlinks, and activate.sh are currently assembled. Done should be defined as a self-contained tgz or directory that runs without Hermit at runtime, including the requested packages and dependencies.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, shell
Domain
devops, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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