gokrazy VS nixos-anywhere

Switching to gokrazy[0] was the best thing I did for my Raspberry Pi uptimes. I think a lot of that is because it defaults to using read-only partitions so the common issue of SD cards falling over when you run apt upgrade no longer happens.

But I also think that gokrazy's simplicity and design helps it be just a solid, reliable foundation to build on top of.

[0]: https://gokrazy.org/

The idea there sounds a lot like https://gokrazy.org/, which builds a minimal go userland, wrapping one or more user provided go applications, and bundles in a linux kernel.

Targets mostly at single board computers, and I think it downloads pre-built kernels (and bootloaters if needed), rather than trying to build them directly, since getting a working cross compilation toolchain set up and plumbed into the kernel compilation process is still a pain.

I've personally only used yocto/open-embedded for that which does nicely handle building the cross-compilation toolchain, kernel image, and modules. But it is kinda overkill for that task, being designed to build a whole userland too.

reminds me of https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy which does similar things.

https://gokrazy.org/ would like a word

Fun! We have support for running on gokrazy (https://gokrazy.org/) already, and that's probably where Unikernel Linux is more applicable for us, for when people just want a "Tailscale appliance" image.

I'll email you.

gokrazy exists! https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy

https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy for one example

I have step-by-step video guides (with accompanying git repos) for booting NixOS from zero on both Hetzner VPS instances[1] and bare metal Robot instances[2] with nixos-anywhere[3]. I used to use nixos-infect but now I'm 100% sold on nixos-anywhere.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlX8g0NXW1M&t=952s

[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

I think things are pretty good with nixos-anywhere[1] now. I made a video last month walking through the process of provisioning a VPS on Hetzner Cloud[2] if you want to see what the process looks like in real-time.

[1]:https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4

> I can speak new instances of my environment into existence

You're not kidding. I used nixos-anywhere [1] for the first time the other day. You can point it to any linux host and it will partition, format, and supplant the target's existing OS with your nixOS config, all with a single command. Incredible.

[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere

There's a few scripts to replace the current os with NixOS: eg https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere