- Install NixOS, which is known for its declarative approach to configuration management, configuration rollback, reliability, and for being DevOps-friendly.
- NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management.
- Due to the large scale of NixOS and how it can be configured and set up, NixOS4Noobs will only focus on a configuration-based system.
- Integration testing with NixOS virtual machines. Building a bootable ISO image. Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi. ... Deploying NixOS using Terraform.
- 3 For more hardware-specific settings, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware. So NixOS it generated a new config ls -lR /mnt.
- Suppose you wanted to use the very latest version of Polychromatic from the unstable branch. First, you'll have to tell nixos to start tracking the unstable channel.
- Reference: slack1256 #nixos @ Libera.chat. Inject config and services variables to the nix repl. This has to be run on a machine running NixOS itself.
- sudo nixos-generate-config --root /mnt. ... sudo nano /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix sudo vim /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
- You can change the system by editing the same /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file as you did originally. For changes to apply, run nixos-rebuild switch.
- After a couple of months using it, I've come to think of NixOS as not only an operating system but a dependency manager for your entire system.