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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by dhess on Sunday September 17, 2017 @02:29PM (#15270966)
FYI, there's a WIP PR for Vultr backend support in NixOps.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/pull/634

I cherry-picked this into my local NixOps repo and have been using it for several weeks to deploy to Vultr servers with no issues, except one -- the author has hard-wired an assumption that you're using Btrfs for your root filesystem. I didn't want that so I simply replaced that hard-wired assumption with ext4 in my personal branch. Now everything is working great.

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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by disassembler on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:44PM (#15272587)
I'm the author of that PR. I apologize for the forced usage of btrfs. This was one of my first delves into the nix language, and I literally copied the digital ocean backend and changed the API calls (and the d.o had a hardcoded filesystem and I wanted btrfs and didn't know how at the time to move that into the configuration level). After the 17.09 release of NixOS is completed, I'll put some focus back in that PR and hopefully get it merged upstream.
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Re:NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment wi... by dhess on Sunday September 17, 2017 @10:47PM (#15273023)
No need to apologize. It works great for my needs and it was easy enough just to hack your hack :)
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