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nixops
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20 Years of Nix
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
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Will we move away from DSLs?
For example Nix can already replace ansible, packer, cloudformation[1], dockerfiles.
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NixOS History and Our Experience - Nix, Null, Nada, Nothing
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.
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The best solution for deploying flakes
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
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Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux
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/
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Tool for managing multiple machines of a distributed system?
Nixops is specifically made for purposes like yours.
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NixOS 21.05 Released!
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".
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Backblaze Is Now a Terraform Provider
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
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Benefits/disadvantages of Guix System in general and over NixOS?
I'll have to read more about NixOps though, I had kind of forgotten that it existed!
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NixOS Linux
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.
nix-darwin
- Nix-Darwin: Nix modules for Darwin
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My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)
Just a shout out to nix-darwin[1]. It is nix, so initial setup is a bit involved. But then it truly makes it easy to configure everything in one place including mac defaults, homebrew apps declaratively and mas apps etc.
There is a sample config in nix-darwin repo[2].
[1] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
[2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/examp...
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macOS Sonoma Broke Grep
https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/tree/master/modules
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What is the difference between NixOS and any other distro running the nix package manager?
nix-darwin does similar thing for MacOS
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How to install a library globally using nix-env (or home manager) on macos?
You can use https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
- Nix-Darwin
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Issues with installing applications on Macos
There are many threads around where you can learn more about this (and why it's complicated...), but https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/1341 and https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/issues/139 seem like two of the most comprehensive.
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Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
Nix is pretty usable for both desktops and headless servers. Personally, I even use it on macOS without much trouble.
My system looks like any other install of Ventura, but all of my configuration, ranging from the terminal and VS Code to macOS-specific system preferences and Safari, is done declaratively in Nix [1]. The overwhelming majority of my installed software also comes from Nix packages, with some exceptions for stuff that is not packaged yet (e.g., I have Podman Desktop, the macOS ZFS port, Lulu, yubikey-manager-qt installed through Homebrew -- fortunately nix-darwin [2] also just lets me have an set of brews/casks in my config).
It was been a bit of a nightmare at first since the error messages are kind of horrific, and there can be a lack of good examples/docs on flakes. But I think the weekend worth of time I invested was worth it since I no longer need to rely on hacky shellscripts or remember to manually configure anything.
[1]: <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager>
[2]: <https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin>
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Beginner Question: Managing the global environment using Nix
Take a look at nix-darwin, this is what I use. It allows you to configure your system similar to NixOS including globally installed programs.
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How to install Chrome on MacOS without homebrew?
This — I still use mas and brew —-cask through the nix-darwin module, though. It’s not exactly reproducible, but it’s at least closer to reproducible and declarative.
What are some alternatives?
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
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.
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
morph - NixOS deployment tool
nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
patchelf - A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables
NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]