[HN Gopher] NixOS Server Up in Minutes
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NixOS Server Up in Minutes
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 26 points
Date : 2024-09-16 18:14 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| sandreas wrote:
| Ok, now with ZFS encrypted root and zfs-auto-snapshot please ;)
| Just kidding, great article, thank you.
| kkfx wrote:
| it's fully supported, my main desktop is NixOS on zfs crypto
| root. I do not use auto-snapshots but they are supported as
| well.
| jesuslop wrote:
| I'm reading Ansible for devops (imperative, isn't it) but find
| declarative configuration management intriguing also. On paper
| NixOS premise is wow, super. But some random blogging say that
| not so much in real life. How's adoption/hurdles, in the field?
| kkfx wrote:
| For me there are two:
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| - the nix language, very little digestible
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| - a somewhat disperse community
|
| But it's still pretty usable and EXTREMELY better than
| mainstream distros automated with Ansible. The real issue is
| that most people still do not know such systems (NixOS/Guix
| System) do exists and they are arguably the future.
| clhodapp wrote:
| The biggest issues are the learning curve (long-standing) and
| some growing social fractures in the community (boiled over
| more recently)
| viraptor wrote:
| Random blogging has been complaining about imperative approach
| to management for a long time as well. There's a lot of nuance
| in different cases, but both have their bad/good sides. Having
| used both a lot, I'm using nix on everything these days though.
| You'll have to try and experience them yourself.
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