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Re:What Is Nix? by Tomte on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:31AM (#23256092)
Is Nix only handling the build part (with configure flags etc.) or is it also used to configure services, for example?

I'm not versed in devops/provisioning etc., but say, I had a NixOS system with some server software (mail server, DNS server, whatever).

Would I still want to use Chef/Puppet/Ansible, or is that included in the Nix ecosystem?

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Re:What Is Nix? by casept on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:57AM (#23256255)
NixOS exposes config options as variables you can set in your configuration.nix file. Also, external config management tools generally interact poorly with nixOS, because they assume a system which is managed imperatively.
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Re:What Is Nix? by myguidingstar on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:12AM (#23257010)
yes, it's included. Nix config files will automatically generate and run services. There's also Nixops which is a tool to push these config to remote machines ie cloud vms.
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