> but it requires fiddling with partitions by hand Nowadays you can declare partitioning instructions with Nix just like the rest of the system: https://github

> but it requires fiddling with partitions by hand Nowadays you can declare partitioning instructions with Nix just like the rest of the system: https://github.com/nix-community/disko https://github.com/nix-community/disko And you can use something like nixos-anywhere with it for a alternative process, if your provider isn't as cool as Linode and won't let you boot arbitrary ISOs: https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere Building images directly for cloud vendors' platforms on your local system and then pushing them up and assigning them to VMs is probably nicer than actually installing NixOS in the cloud, though. See this comment's siblings for that :)