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[danbst]

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[danbst]

This quite deserves Deployments Group category, to share visibility

Systemd backend or "using NixOps to manage Ubuntu"

Overall question: Is this worth looking into? Not just for NixOps but also for users of Nix to manage services. One hacky approach is to mangle the activation scripts. That is described below. I’ve been playing with an idea to create a backend for NixOps to manage non-NixOS machines. They would most likely be systemd-based to take advantage of the “expert system database” [https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-nixos-is-an-expert-system-database/671]. My initial look was to just point NixOps at …

[danbst]

Extra-container - Run declarative containers without full system rebuilds

https://github.com/erikarvstedt/extra-container Example: sudo extra-container create --start <<'EOF' { containers.demo = { privateNetwork = true; hostAddress = "10.250.0.1"; localAddress = "10.250.0.2"; config = { pkgs, ... }: { networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 50 ]; systemd.services.hello = { wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; script = "while true; do echo hello | ${pkgs.netcat}/bin/nc -lN 50; done"; }; }; }; } EOF curl 10.2…