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> Even something that should be Nix's MAJOR selling point, like "create a single repo that configures a bunch of machines, including some NixOS and some other

• mason55 5y ago
  NixOps is fine for pushing changes to machines (well, actually I think it has a lot of problems, and somehow the NixOps docs are even worse than the regular Nix docs as far as getting started and bootstrapping and doing basic tasks, but that's not the point). But it's all about the mechanics of pushing changes to your hosts. It certainly doesn't give you any kind of opinion on how to, say, structure a repo that has your hardware configs, Home Manager on a non-NixOS machine, Home Manager on a NixOS machine, some systemd services, etc. And there's no reason to need NixOps to maintain a repo of three or four physical machines that you have around your house.
  • squiggleblaz 5y ago
    > And there's no reason to need NixOps to maintain a repo of three or four physical machines that you have around your house. You don't. You can use `nixos-rebuild test --target-host=red --flake .#red`. If you want to build locally, add --build-host=localhost. NixOps gives you the advantage of not having to repeat yourself, but you could easily whip up a shell script for `rebuild-switch red`.