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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] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I love NixOS on the server! Run my non profit that way. It's beautiful really, everything is declared and then you commit that to version control and it's 100% reproducible. Just backup your data.

I would add that you can still do containers like docker, if you really want I believe there is a way to declare your containers too. It's really awesome what NixOS can do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sweet, thats's a big deal for me as well. Nobody else wants to learn any kind of orchestration or anything, so I've been trying to get Salt to manage the containers I have, and it's a bit of a pain. Having them configured the same way as the server would prevent some headache, I think!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Note that unless you really need containers (such as the separate root fs), systemd services can provide pretty much all of container's isolation. It's opt-in but systemd-analyze security can tell you about potential things you can lock down. Some NixOS modules already do this by default.

And together with NixOS's excellent modules which are usually a lot better than the container experience, personally I don't see the use case for containers on NixOS especially looking at the added complexity they bring with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, good to know, thank you. I hadn't really considered that if the whole environment is scripted out like it is, then I wouldn't get as much benefit out of them as I do otherwise. Good tip!

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

Absolutely! Nix seems to like the approach of do it their way, unless you don't want to. Then do it your way! Lol

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