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I know that part is easy, i just nix-anywhere just yesterday to reinstall one of my servers. It's not what I'm talking about.

• Cyph0n 9mo ago
  Okay, so your idea is that cloud providers should make this even easier? $ nixos-rebuild build-image --flake .#myhost --image-variant amazon $ aws-cli image upload < result/images/image.ami $ aws-cli create vm --image={image}
  • 0x457 9mo ago
    Less about IaaS providers, more about PaaS providers that often abstract away image you're running and tell you "just run pip/apt/gem install whatever". Same with the CI platforms, instead of `setup-*` steps in GHA it could have just take flake in. Yes, I know I can build OCI image with nix, again, not the issue. My private CI runs on top of nix, all workers on the same host share /nix/store. My pipelines focused on running actual things rather than getting a worker ready to run things. If I didn't want output to be parsed by CI, I could have just reduced my pipeline to `nix flake check`. I share the exact same pipeline and worker image across multiple projects in multiple languages, all because everything is hidden behind devenv's tasks. When I switched project different rust and node versions, I didn't have to touch my CI at all. When I added a bunch of native deps that usually needed to be installed separately on GHA - again, didn't have to touch anything beyond my nix env once.