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  • highspire@sopuli.xyzOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlNixOS in production?
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for your extremely thoughtful response. One thing I need to research for myself is how user data, configuration, etc. is handled with a rollback. In MicroOS, the system itself is snapshotted by default (/etc for example) but user data (/home) is not. I would assume that a rollback would not touch the user data, so an upgrade could break that (e.g. database migration performed by a package update).

    If you’re always able to roll back, is taking the time to build and run a VM really worth it except for very critical maintenance windows? Does the VM just copy the nix config or the data too? Today, I use Vagrant for testing my Salt states. It does what I need.

    I don’t come from functional programming, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out. Would have been nice for it not to have its own language, but I suppose that’s most efficient instead of repurposing / abusing another language in a weird way.



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    1 year ago

    Sweet, thats’s a big deal for me as well. Nobody else wants to learn any kind of orchestration or anything, so I’ve been trying to get Salt to manage the containers I have, and it’s a bit of a pain. Having them configured the same way as the server would prevent some headache, I think!


  • Thank you! I’m lucky in that nearly all my servers have to run on-prem, so that’s not so much of a concern. I’m sure I could convince the powers that be to allow me to use a different cloud provider for the couple special cases if we couldn’t continue with what we use (Linode/Akamai).