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Why everyone is switching to NixOS ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone!

I saw that NixOS is getting popularity recently. I really have no idea why and how this OS works. Can you guys help me understanding all of this ?

Thanks !

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great points and perspective!

I think NixOS at this point is great to know and have an eye on for new projects that happen to require some preconfigured OS "underneath". I wouldn't think about migrate existing, working infrastructure into NixOS either, 'just because'.

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

It occurred to me that NixOS might have a hard time doing something like this:

create a 6 node Docker Swarm cluster, where 3 of the nodes are managers

I can see NixOS doing a fine job of templating a standard build that includes the Docker engine. But working out which one gets to init the swarm, which ones get to join as managers, which ones get to join as workers? Yeah, that's probably better off left to something like Ansible.