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nixos
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JOIN NIXOS TODAY OR BECOME INSIGNIFICANT TOMORROW!
I know you have'nt asked me, but maybe my auditional input on this topic is also helpful: With NixOS I find myself looking into the packages on a very regular basis! You can find the links within the search.nixos.org site. The modules are well documented and list all the options available. In case you are interested in a working flakes configuration: you can find mine as an example on GitHub. I'm allready using flakes it for a few months and I love it! The configs are pretty much self explanatory. I also use krops for deploying to multible systems. I've linked some helpful ressources I've used to get into NixoS within my README. https://github.com/mayniklas/nixos
- People who use nix flakes for their system config, what do you do about the flake.lock?
nixos-generators
- NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
Those Linode instructions are about installing an OS from an installation ISO from Linode's rescue mode. -- I'd consider that more a 'plus' to Linode that you get to be able to install whatever unsupported Linux on Linode's VMs. But, of course it's not as smooth as the officially supported images.
Sibling comment mentions that NixOS provides ways to build VM images (e.g. https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators has a generator specifically for Linode).
Another option is to use nixos-infect, which will replace a Linux distribution with a NixOS distribution. https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect
> At that point, I feel like all of the repeatability gains are gone. If I want to spin up a fresh server, I have to read a guide and set stuff up by hand?
Just as with ansible, "git pull to deploy". You'd keep a copy of your NixOS configuration.nix somewhere else, and would be able to apply it later.
> it really does let me just get a new VPS and deploy to it very fast
Using a tool you're familiar with to get the job done is going to be faster than learning to use a tool you're unfamiliar with.
I believe much of the use of NixOS is for hobby stuff, and for personal machines. (c.f. "In what environments do you use Nix", Development (1242) vs Home Server (845) vs Production (386) https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983).
- Questions about Nix
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Couple of noob questions
If you need to generate lxc container in NixOS then perhaps this repo might be useful: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators this article uses it https://www.thedroneely.com/posts/running-nixos-linux-containers/
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disko-images - Create qcow2 images from NixOS + disko configuration
You might wanna check out nix-community/nixos-generators, it’s maintained by the same dude as Disko
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How to do machine specific config on EC2 using an official nixos ami?
You can look at nixos-generators for support code that well let you take existing configs and build a variety of bootable images from them.
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Flake to make NixOS iso
You should take a look at NixOS Generators, it's a flake with configs to build common formats like ISO, LXC, Docker, etc. I use that to generate an ISO with my config, specifically the packages.iso section.
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Need help with NixOs VM Generation
I am trying to make use of https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators to generate qcow2 images from a NixOs configuration. Since it will be used with Scaleway, they require an efi bootable image.
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[NixOS] How to Migrate From one Server to another? KVM to VMware
I haven't migrated machines from one vm provider to vmware, but I have provided a number of pregenerated nixos images (along the line of https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators) to clients to install onto vmware (and other - hyperv, xen, qemu, physical) hosts.
What are some alternatives?
issue-tracker - Fedora Silverblue issue tracker
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin
nix-gaming - Gaming on Nix
nix-machines
nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.
pont - pont, the dotmodule manager