What does HackerNews think of nixops?

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

[1] - https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs

I'm still relatively new to NixOS, having switched all my personal systems over to it this spring/summer. I don't do cloud dev atm, so haven't explored that use case yet.

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/

(more below)

If you want a more experienced answer, I suggest asking on the NixOS forum or subreddit, people are quick to answer in both places.

https://discourse.nixos.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/

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More useful NixOPs guides

https://www.thedroneely.com/posts/nixops-towards-the-final-f...

https://ops.functionalalgebra.com/nixops-by-example/

https://nixops.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

> Even something that should be Nix's MAJOR selling point, like "create a single repo that configures a bunch of machines, including some NixOS and some other OS" doesn't have a recommended way to do it.

NixOps[0]? But yeah, it isn't featured as prominently anymore as it used to be...

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

In addition to the other comments, there is also nixops. [1]

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

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

There's NixOps:

- https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

- https://ops.functionalalgebra.com/nixops-by-example/

What it doesn't do: handling cpu quota on per "stack" basis, no builtin security isolation. That said, both use container technology for that.

By solving the issue at a layer below (instead of adding one like docker does) it makes things much cleaner, more powerful making obselete puppet and the like. FWIW describing a containers/vm's/os'es in guix is much more easy than using docker.

Have a look at https://github.com/NixOS/nixops too.

I highly recommend https://github.com/NixOS/nixops, which is good for deployment in general, but especially good for Haskell since the Haskell infrastructure was rewritten this year.

No. It's this:

Ansible (et al) aren't enough => We improve a part of the underlying system => We build a new tool that makes use of the improvements and is therefor better than Ansible.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

Allow me to introduce you guys to NixOS, and its ops counterpart, NixOps.

http://nixos.org/nixos/ https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

It's a young project but it already solves most of these issues.