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?
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.
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).