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Top 4 Nix sops Projects
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I would strongly recommend sops-nix[0]. Pair this with ssh-to-age/ssh-to-gpg for the keys for each server. We are using this at $work for multiple servers, one notable advantages is that it works in teams (for multiple people) and git (and also gitops).
For remote installations nixos-anywhere is great. deploy-rs or colemna is fine, nixos-rebuild with `--target-host` is also working well for us however.
[0]: https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix/issues
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Project mention: Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-05
That’s essentially what I’m trying to make widely available through my projects https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks and https://github.com/ibizaman/skarabox. Their shared goal is to make self-hosting more approachable to the masses.
It’s based on NixOS to provide as much as possible out of the box and declaratively: https, SSO, LDAP, backups, ZFS w/ snapshots, etc.
It’s a competitor to cloud hosting because it packages Vaultwarden and Nextcloud to store most of your data. It does provide more services than that though, home assistant for example.
It’s a competitor to YUNoHost but IMO better (or aims to be) because you can use the building blocks provided by SelfHostBlocks to self-host any packages you want. It’s more of a library than a framework.
It’s a competitor to NAS but better because everything is open source.
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Infrastructure and backend engineer with a low-level systems background. Last 3 years as the sole or one of very few infra engineers at early-stage startups - owning everything from VPC topology to CI/CD to on-call.
Currently building cloud infrastructure for a GPU neocloud (H100/H200) from scratch. Before that, sole platform engineer at an autonomous driving research lab, and before that SRE at a YC-backed video comms startup (acquired by a major cloud provider) managing 20+ Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP.
On the systems side - wrote a custom Karpenter provider in Go for a cloud provider, a C++ initramfs to run Gentoo on bare-metal Android phones with Android userland in LXC (GSoC 2020), and ADAS software on Android using Cap'n Proto + ZeroMQ + LMDB serving 275+ vehicles.
Also wrote bin (github.com/wantguns/bin), a self-hostable pastebin in Rust with 300 stars. Outside of work I maintain a multi-continent server mesh across Hetzner, Oracle Cloud and bare-metal, all declared in a public Nix flake (source - https://github.com/wantguns/dotfiles, blogs -https://wantguns.dev/tags/yakshaving)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Nix sops discussion
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A guide to build a Raspberry Pi cluster managed by NixOps
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Index
What are some of the best open-source sops projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sops-nix | 2,907 |
| 2 | skarabox | 91 |
| 3 | dotfiles | 54 |
| 4 | dotfiles | 4 |
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