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• My new Nix series!
  8 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2024

  Atop all this is the Nix Operating System, or NixOS. NixOS brings all of the declarative goodness of Nix into a Linux distribution. This means that (almost) everything about your system is declarative, including the packages (obviously), the users, the desktop, the login manager, systemd units, containers, and among other things, even the bootloader! Through some extensions, you can also partition disks, build images, and even configure your home folder. A single NixOS configuration is built into multiple pre-configured operating systems using just a single command!

• NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2024
• NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024

  https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators

• NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023

  Those Linode instructions are about installing an OS from an installation ISO from Linode's rescue mode. -- I'd consider that more a 'plus' to Linode that you get to be able to install whatever unsupported Linux on Linode's VMs. But, of course it's not as smooth as the officially supported images.

  Sibling comment mentions that NixOS provides ways to build VM images (e.g. https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators has a generator specifically for Linode).

  Another option is to use nixos-infect, which will replace a Linux distribution with a NixOS distribution. https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect

  > At that point, I feel like all of the repeatability gains are gone. If I want to spin up a fresh server, I have to read a guide and set stuff up by hand?

  Just as with ansible, "git pull to deploy". You'd keep a copy of your NixOS configuration.nix somewhere else, and would be able to apply it later.

  > it really does let me just get a new VPS and deploy to it very fast

  Using a tool you're familiar with to get the job done is going to be faster than learning to use a tool you're unfamiliar with.

  I believe much of the use of NixOS is for hobby stuff, and for personal machines. (c.f. "In what environments do you use Nix", Development (1242) vs Home Server (845) vs Production (386) https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983).

• Questions about Nix
  1 project | /r/NixOS | 17 Jun 2023
• Couple of noob questions
  6 projects | /r/Nix | 20 May 2023

  If you need to generate lxc container in NixOS then perhaps this repo might be useful: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators this article uses it https://www.thedroneely.com/posts/running-nixos-linux-containers/

• disko-images - Create qcow2 images from NixOS + disko configuration
  3 projects | /r/NixOS | 18 May 2023

  You might wanna check out nix-community/nixos-generators, it’s maintained by the same dude as Disko

• How to do machine specific config on EC2 using an official nixos ami?
  2 projects | /r/NixOS | 1 Apr 2023

  You can look at nixos-generators for support code that well let you take existing configs and build a variety of bootable images from them.

• Flake to make NixOS iso
  2 projects | /r/NixOS | 21 Mar 2023

  You should take a look at NixOS Generators, it's a flake with configs to build common formats like ISO, LXC, Docker, etc. I use that to generate an ISO with my config, specifically the packages.iso section.

• Need help with NixOs VM Generation
  2 projects | /r/NixOS | 25 Feb 2023

  I am trying to make use of https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators to generate qcow2 images from a NixOs configuration. Since it will be used with Scaleway, they require an efi bootable image.

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