<DigitalKiwi>
can you change a name of a machine without making it recreate
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<jkachmar>
hiyo; someone from the FP Slack directed me here when I asked about general reading on NixOps
<jkachmar>
I've been using Nix to configure my personal machines for about a year now and I've got a decent handle on that (I think), but I'm not particularly well versed in "ops" overall and I wanted to see what Nix offers here and what contemporary tools its comparable to
<jkachmar>
In particular I'm going to be setting up a (very smol) home lab in the near future; probably going to run NixOS on it regardless, but I was curious what (if anything) NixOps has that could help making management of a little headless system like this a bit easier
<jD91mZM2>
jkachmar: NixOps is good for: 1) Scaling up machines automagically if you use machines from VPS. Might not be applicable for you. 2) Automagically mass-transmitting a series of config files to all machines. So you just go `nixops deploy` and it copies the config and runs nixos-rebuild (well, it actually builds the config on your system, but those are details). 3) Transmitting "secrets", like
<jD91mZM2>
passwords or stuff, is pretty cool because it's done using scp rather than nix which means it stays with a root-only permission (plus a group called "keys" which you'll want your services to use)
<jD91mZM2>
Nix, in general, I don't think has many alternatives you can compare to. I guess it's a wee bit similar to docker I guess. Well, it's more of a non-retarded docker because docker is basically a package-manager for your package manager, while Nix is not just trying to workaround the problem but rather fixes the problem by being an actual good package manager that does its job
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