colmena VS nixos-config

Compare colmena vs nixos-config and see what are their differences.

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colmena nixos-config
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colmena

Posts with mentions or reviews of colmena. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
  • NixOS for the Impatient
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    - rpi nas

    I also wipe my entire rootfs every boot with a zfs snapshot rollback[2] using the impermanence module[3] to keep specific stateful data one one of two datasets with regular snapshots: one is backed up with zfs send, the other is just for cache between reboots.

    It took a little puzzling to get started, because I didn’t know about the impermanence module, so I built my own hacky solution. But I really love this setup. And the way I don’t have cruft to clean.

    Also my backups are so much smaller now :’-)

    [1]: https://colmena.cli.rs/

  • Understanding nixos secrets management/aws configuration
    4 projects | /r/NixOS | 16 Apr 2022
    Answering your broader question (secret management) colmena does that for me outside the Nix store. I also use git-crypt to store secrets in the repo. There are also more Nix-y alternatives like agenix.
  • deploy-rs and colmena should combine efforts
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 20 Feb 2022
  • Wir schreiben für das c't-Magazin über Linux - fragt uns alles! [Beginn um 17 Uhr]
    11 projects | /r/de_EDV | 26 Jan 2022
  • The best solution for deploying flakes
    5 projects | /r/NixOS | 30 Nov 2021
    There are 4 tools I'm taking into consideration right now, but every suggestion is welcome: 1. deploy-rs - I don't know anything about it, heard about it like a day or two ago 2. NixOps - the official one, I don't know what to think, but I have concerns about Flakes compatibility 3. morph - I understand this as "NixOps, but better", no more toughs. 4. colmena - seems to be pretty straightforward with quite nice docs
  • Toy highly-available Kubernetes cluster on NixOS
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 4 Nov 2021
    They shouldn't be, Colmena stringifies the keyFile values which is the same approach as NixOps uses to avoid this. Apparently I implemented that part myself, haha.
  • Big brain
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 26 Apr 2021
    I myself use colmena's apply-local. Anyway, totally relate to the meme. Using the same tool to manage your servers and workstations, and reusing stuff between them is amazing.

nixos-config

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-config. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing colmena and nixos-config you can also consider the following projects:

deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.

morph - NixOS deployment tool

.dots - just my .dotfiles

nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.

digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]

nixos-configurations

archwiki - MediaWiki used on Arch Linux websites (read-only mirror)

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script

nixos-ha-kubernetes - Toy highly-available Kubernetes cluster on NixOS