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NixOS in production? (sopuli.xyz)

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Hey all, I'm wondering about giving NixOS a try. It seems like it's mostly marketed for development environments and CI, but I haven't seen much of anything about it being used on production servers. Right now I manage Alma 8 servers with Salt, and bootstrap Salt with a modified version of the ISO. NixOS seems like it could help streamline how I do things. Does anyone use it and have thoughts one way or another?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use NixOS and NixOps for all my servers. The hard part is finding a host that supports it or setting up the server manually.

This will be a helpful resource: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_friendly_hosters

I've successfully run NixOS on Vultr, Hetzner and Scaleway, but all of them were different to set up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm lucky in that nearly all my servers have to run on-prem, so that's not so much of a concern. I'm sure I could convince the powers that be to allow me to use a different cloud provider for the couple special cases if we couldn't continue with what we use (Linode/Akamai).