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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by philipov on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:00AM (#15269914)
Can I use it to deploy either client or server applications on windows? All configuration and deployment tools I've looked at seem like they assume the only deployment target is linux servers running web applications. I don't care about the web. I need a deployment tool that works for local research on my clients' analysts' desktops, not just devops on remote somewhere.
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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by jacques_chester on Sunday September 17, 2017 @05:11PM (#15271717)
BOSH works with Windows machines.

Most of the pain is building stemcells (the target disk image). Microsoft haven't quite made their peace with the idea.

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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by detaro on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:42AM (#15270099)
Have you looked into the Windows features of Ansible or SaltStack? Would be interested to hear about experiences with them.
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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by reificator on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:49AM (#15270134)
I would like to adopt something for configuration of my personal machines. Desktop and tablet running Windows 10, laptop running macOS.

If possible I'd prefer to use one tool for both OSes.

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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by mbrock on Sunday September 17, 2017 @01:24PM (#15270660)
Nix supposedly works in the new Linux subsystem of Windows 10, but I haven't tried it.
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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by FrozenCow on Sunday September 17, 2017 @01:58PM (#15270824)
Nix itself does indeed work on the latest version of WSL. However, there are still issues with building most of the packages from nixpkgs. For instance, I'm still waiting for this issue to be solved: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1878

Other distros are also affected by these issues, so I think they'll be solved eventually.

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