First class support for creating production bundles

[alecthomas]

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.

[damienrj]

This would be great for scenarios where you don't have open access to the internet to pull in packages at run time.

[gedw99]

this is an awesome feature for lean architectures.

offline install like @damienrj mentioned is very cool.

[gedw99]

I raised an Issue for using NATS for persistence and other things.
It would also integrate with CI and Production well too which this issue is pertaining to to some degree.