nixops VS darling

Compare nixops vs darling and see what are their differences.

nixops

NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud. (by NixOS)

darling

Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux (by darlinghq)
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nixops darling
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nixops

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
  • 20 Years of Nix
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
    As far as I know, it’s still about [0]. I’ve had a better experience with deploy-rs though [1] - or even just using nixos-rebuild to target the remote machine.

    [0] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

  • Will we move away from DSLs?
    3 projects | /r/devops | 29 Apr 2022
    For example Nix can already replace ansible, packer, cloudformation[1], dockerfiles.
  • NixOS History and Our Experience - Nix, Null, Nada, Nothing
    8 projects | /r/NixOS | 26 Jan 2022
    Nix can also ship the nixpkgs as an oci image (e.g. docker image), vm image, iso, or if you're able to: as a nixos configuration. Tools like nixops can allow you to deploy many machines and have their behavior exactly specified, and the configuration can be version controlled. NixOS configuration can be thought of as congruent configuration management, where many other tools give you many less guarantees about configuration drift and reproducibility.
  • 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
  • Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2021
    I'm still relatively new to NixOS, having switched all my personal systems over to it this spring/summer. I don't have a detailed answer to your question, but I believe NixOPs is the canonical way to do what you're describing in production/at scale:

    https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

    https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/

  • NixOS 21.05 Released!
    8 projects | /r/linux | 2 Jun 2021
    Well, everyone of course! But especially devops, developers, power-users, and ricer folks. Due to the declarative and purity aspect of nixpkgs, all builds and configurations can be version controlled, cached and shared. NixOS can easily be extended to produce docker images, vm images, or even distributed deployments. You can also write reproducible multi-node integration tests. Tinkerers! Love playing around with the latest desktop manager or modifying builds? Nixpkgs allows you to modify any package you wish to, locally! Nixpkgs is actually a source distribution but its guarantees around purity and reproducibility are so strong that you can get a binary cache "for free".
  • Backblaze Is Now a Terraform Provider
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2021
    You could use NixOps[0] for Nix but I'm not sure you can directly compare Terraform and Guix/Nix? My set up involves Terraform for infrastructure and Nix for provisioning, and it's working for me so far.

    [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

  • Benefits/disadvantages of Guix System in general and over NixOS?
    5 projects | /r/GUIX | 10 Feb 2021
    I'll have to read more about NixOps though, I had kind of forgotten that it existed!
  • NixOS Linux
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2021
    Kind of off topic, but I would love to have NixOps (https://github.com/NixOS/nixops) as an abstraction layer for every type of cloud service, and not just virtual machines (e.g. queues, object storages, etc).

    There is Terraform and Ansible, of course, but Nix seems like it could combine the strengths of both of them.

darling

Posts with mentions or reviews of darling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nixops and darling you can also consider the following projects:

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

terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

text-generation-webui - A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.

macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

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

ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.

morph - NixOS deployment tool

Lenovo-Thinkpad-T450-T450s-Hackintosh-Guide-Opencore - This repo contains the installation guide and EFI files required to get a perfectly functional Catalina and Big Sur hackintosh on your Brodwell (5th gen) T450 or T450s. Everything is stable and functional as described in the Readme.

nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that

macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS

cctools-port - Apple cctools port for Linux and *BSD

earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux