Just today I was setting up a server for a side project and mulling over do I use ol' reliable Ubuntu+Ansible vs finally trying NixOS. I was very sad to see that all of the popular VPS services (Digital Ocean and the like) "no longer" officially support NixOS.
Linode was nice enough to have an official "how to set up NixOS on Linode" guide, but it requires fiddling with partitions by hand. At that point, I feel like all of the repeatability gains are gone. If I want to spin up a fresh server, I have to read a guide and set stuff up by hand? Could spend that same time setting up an Ubuntu by hand each time followed by git pull or scp to deploy. Ended up using Ansible in the end, as it really does let me just get a new VPS and deploy to it very fast when the time comes.
I wonder why the big providers once supported NixOS and then decided to stop!
Linode was nice enough to have an official "how to set up NixOS on Linode" guide, but it requires fiddling with partitions by hand. At that point, I feel like all of the repeatability gains are gone. If I want to spin up a fresh server, I have to read a guide and set stuff up by hand? Could spend that same time setting up an Ubuntu by hand each time followed by git pull or scp to deploy. Ended up using Ansible in the end, as it really does let me just get a new VPS and deploy to it very fast when the time comes.
I wonder why the big providers once supported NixOS and then decided to stop!