[Haskell-cafe] Best deployment method for Hakyll websites (with Stack)?

[Nicola Gigante]

Hello,

Note, this is not a Hakyll question, after all.

I’m trying to host a hakyll website on a CentOS 7 server.
I want to replicate the setup I had with the previous site, made
with Jekyll: at each push on the git repository (hosted on the same
server), the branch is recompiled and deployed to the web server.

I already have the git hooks in place etc… The problem is how to
manage the installation of ghc, hakyll, and their dependencies.

I really really wish to have a clean solution. I really like stack, but
its “per-user” directories make me wonder. The site compilation has
to be performed by the git user account, which does not have an
home directory. Can I setup a stack installation of a set of packages
and then point stack to use that and only that? 

Also, how about the integration with docker? Is it really so painless as
it is advertised? If I’ve understood correctly, I could install the 
docker image with stackage packages already installed, and tell stack
to use that image with docker, having the site compilation sandboxed.
Is it feasible?

Thank you for any advice,
Nicola