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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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[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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.