NixOS in Production
NixOS in Production
The NixOS handbook for professional use ONLY
About the Book
This book is a guide to using NixOS in production that will help you answer the following questions:
- What real-world use cases does NixOS address better than the alternatives?
- What does a mature NixOS enterprise look like?
- How do I smoothly migrate an organization to adopt NixOS?
- What potential pitfalls of NixOS should I be mindful to avoid?
- How can I effectively support and debug NixOS when things go wrong?
I'm writing this book because I cultivated years of professional experience doing all of the above, back when no such resource existed. I learned NixOS the hard way and I'm writing this book so that you don't have to make the same mistakes I did.
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Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
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2 What is NixOS for?
- Desktop vs. Server
- On-premises vs. Software as a service
- Virtualization
- The killer app for NixOS
- Profile of a NixOS adopter
- What does NixOS replace?
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3 The big picture
- The Zen of NixOS
- GitOps
- DevOps
- Architecture
- Scope
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4 Setting up your development environment
- Installing Nix
- Running a NixOS virtual machine
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5 Our first web server
- Hello, world!
- DevOps
- TODO list
- Passing through the filesystem
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6 NixOS option definitions
- Anatomy of a NixOS module
- Syntactic sugar
- NixOS modules are not language features
- NixOS
- Recursion
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7 Advanced option definitions
- Imports
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libutilities
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8 Deploying to AWS using Terraform
- Configuring your access keys
- A minimal Terraform specification
- Deploying our configuration
- Cleaning up
- Terraform walkthrough
- S3 Backend
- Version control
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9 Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment
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10 Flakes
- Motivation
- Flakes, step-by-step
- Flake-related commands
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11 Integration testing
- NixOS test
- Interactive testing
- Shared constants
- Notes
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