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tdro micro.thedroneely.com (edited) view Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink Nov 1 2022 13:11 UTC 22 sec 66/50 words

I feel sorta conflicted about my posted notes on nixops because shortly after that I discovered nixos-rebuild had remote deploys. Now nixos-rebuild itself is just a bash script and taking a peek inside is well, you know.. enlightening. There’s even a NixOS deployment tool written in just nix. I use nixos-rebuild…

shell
nixos-rebuild switch \
  --target-host "nix@remote.host" \
  --build-host "localhost" \
  --no-build-nix
Build locally, deploy remotely
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tdro

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tdro

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tdro micro.thedroneely.com view Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink Oct 8 2022 22:54 UTC 21 sec 63/50 words

I might not remember correctly but lxc came out around 2008. Docker in 2013. The lxc commands had the trend of dashes in their name — lxc-attach, lxc-snapshot, lxc-copy and so forth. It had lots of boilerplate and a steep learning curve.

Then lxd arrived (in 2015?) to make everything user friendly. lxd is preferred. I still mostly use lxc out of habit.

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tdro

Another wandering soul screaming into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

tdro micro.thedroneely.com view Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink Oct 6 2022 21:44 UTC 25 sec 75/50 words

After daily driving NixOS and the Nix for almost three years, it feels like it’ll be simplified by entities external to the project. It’s still in that academic phase (don’t do this/that) and needs software engineering .

That usually involves reducing boilerplate ruthlessly while generalizing/capturing fundamental uses cases (setting implicit best current practices). It’s reminiscent of lxc just before docker arrived for the masses.

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