• Klaymore
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    1 year ago

    Yeah NixOS is great for servers, since you’re able to configure everything through the NixOS configs. Like if you want nginx you just add services.nginx.enable = true and similarly set the different virtualHosts and everything. That way your nginx configuration is stored in the same place as your system configuration, which can all be backed up with Git, and you can see everything running on your system and their configuration by just looking through your NixOS config.

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      1 year ago

      That’s very interesting. I use ansible to maintain configuring on my Debian services. I guess there’d be no need when running Nix