I used to have a VPS running a traditional OS (CentOS) that I eventually got rid of. One of the reasons I tried to migrate away from it was from the sysadmin perspective, I felt like the server once everything was configured was a bit of a snowflake.
Obviously configuring everything through nix and being able to easily rollback changes sound very compelling.
Have folks used nix as a server OS? How’s your experience been?
NixOS is my main server OS for a while now. As of a couple days ago it’s also running on my home router. It’s absolutely awesome for servers, another great feature that works well for that which wasn’t mentioned yet is that you can just spin up a VM from your configuration to test stuff, and that you can easily share configuration between different servers which I make heavy use of.
Declarative configuration honestly makes everything that doesn’t have it seem janky in comparison haha