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

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 17 comments · first 2013-06-25 · latest 2023-03-18

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  1. …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
    comment by bpye · 2023-03-18 · in 20 years of Nix
  2. …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…
    comment by SkyMarshal · 2021-09-15 · in Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentalized Linux
  3. …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
    comment by Nullabillity · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  4. In addition to the other comments, there is also nixops. [1] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
    comment by the_duke · 2021-04-09 · in Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
  5. …involves Terraform for infrastructure and Nix for provisioning, and it's working for me so far. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
    comment by ethnt · 2021-03-11 · in Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
  6. 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…
    comment by haolez · 2021-01-10 · in NixOS Linux
  7. https://github.com/NixOS/nixops NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or the cloud. Key features include: https://nixos.org NixOS is based on Nix, a purely functional package management system. by using Nix not only…
    comment by seniorivn · 2020-12-09 · in Mgmt: Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management
  8. What advantages does Pyinfra have over NixOps? https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
    comment by ghostwriter · 2020-06-11 · in Pyinfra – automate infrastructure super fast at scale
  9. There's NixOps: - https://github.com/NixOS/nixops - https://ops.functionalalgebra.com/nixops-by-example/
    comment by ghostwriter · 2020-04-27 · in My NixOS Desktop Flow
  10. I think I might agree. I've been experimenting with making NixOps piggyback on terraform providers ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/1242#issuecomment-607... ) in my spare time. I think this is the same mechanism as Pulumi uses now…
    comment by arianvanp · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS
  11. …You can even use Nix to create and deploy cloud resources ala Terraform: github.com/nixos/nixops Some other notable uses of Nix in cloud native landscape: https://github.com/saschagrunert/kubernix - a KIND alternative https
    comment by arianvanp · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS
  12. True, are you aware of the following Github issue related to this? https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/565 It has links to solutions people are using, and other related issues.
    comment by servilio · 2020-02-24 · in The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments
  13. FYI, there's a WIP PR for Vultr backend support in NixOps. https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/pull/634 I cherry-picked this into my local NixOps repo and have been using it for several weeks to deploy to Vultr servers with no issues, except…
    comment by dhess · 2017-09-17 · in NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS
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    NixOps, the NixOS-based cloud deployment tool
    story by brassybadger · 2015-09-13 · 0 comments
  15. …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.
    comment by amirouche · 2015-07-01 · in Docker: Not Even a Linker
  16. 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.
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2015-04-27 · in Functional Programming in Haskell by Examples
  17. …=> We build a new tool that makes use of the improvements and is therefor better than Ansible. https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
    comment by cwp · 2014-03-11 · in Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough
  18. ▲ 1
    Nixops - Nixos cloud deployment tool
    story by kstaken · 2013-07-18 · 0 comments
  19. 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.
    comment by srgpqt · 2013-06-25 · in Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck