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A comment on Ask HN: For those who use Nix in production, what is your experience like?.

Re:Ask HN: For those who use Nix in production, what is your... by elikoga on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:16PM (#38448151)
It's been great for me!

The company I work for right now uses NixOS for all* Bare-Metal Hosts and VMs that run atop them. Personally I run my Home-Lab/Personal-Computing-Setup all on NixOS.

You have to consider that Nix is a language (turing complete, for describing build-processes) and treat it that way too. It has a similiar, if not harder, learning curve to other languages. Especially since most people are usually not exposed to concepts such as lazy evaluation, functional programming, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: For those who use Nix in production, what is your... by niz4ts on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:06AM (#38471355)
How do you folks manage NixOS from a security/compliance perspective? I'm currently considering NixOS for a few test services in my company, and security/compliance is the biggest obstacle. Have you had to develop your own tooling for this?

To expand on it further: NixOS has modules and packages that come straight from Nixpkgs, and there are concerns with supply chain attacks because of that. How does your company solve this?

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