# Shepherd progress, use cases

**URL:** <https://community.spritely.institute/t/shepherd-progress-use-cases/699>\
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**Created:** [March 26, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/shepherd-progress-use-cases/699 "2025-03-26T18:17:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dckc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.spritely.institute/dckc/32/15_2.png) [@dckc](https://community.spritely.institute/u/dckc)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/shepherd-progress-use-cases/699/1 "2025-03-26T18:17:57Z")

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in office hours, I asked what’s new since the May 2024 forum post…

- [Distributed System Daemons: More Than a Twinkle in Goblins' Eye](https://community.spritely.institute/t/distributed-system-daemons-more-than-a-twinkle-in-goblins-eye/492)

The main news is a [Feb 2 FOSDEM talk](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5315-shepherd-with-spritely-goblins-for-secure-system-layer-collaboration/) where @juli reported that a lot of the low level conversion of actors to goblins is done, but… um… _something_ remains TBD:

- [FOSDEM 2025 - Shepherd with Spritely Goblins for Secure System Layer Collaboration](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5315-shepherd-with-spritely-goblins-for-secure-system-layer-collaboration/)

The latest commit I see is `8dbae8319` 2025-01-17

> **[shepherd.git - GNU Shepherd](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/log/?h=wip-goblinsify)**

I asked about use cases:

- supercomputing cluster orchestration - noted by @juli
- guix deploy stuff (avoid ssh) - noted by @dthompson
- one other I forgot already

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**Author:** ![dckc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.spritely.institute/dckc/32/15_2.png) [@dckc](https://community.spritely.institute/u/dckc)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/shepherd-progress-use-cases/699/2 "2025-05-05T14:22:23Z")

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If there’s any shepherd/goblins news since last office hours, I’d love a quick summary.

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**Author:** ![dthompson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.spritely.institute/dthompson/32/95_2.png) [@dthompson](https://community.spritely.institute/u/dthompson)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/shepherd-progress-use-cases/699/3 "2025-05-07T15:05:45Z")

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No new updates on Shepherd since last month.