Case Study: Doctors Without Borders(Médecins Sans Frontières) & NixOS
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors without Borders, was faced with a problem: They had dozens of servers deployed throughout the world, often in makeshift clinics in some of the harshest, most remote places. They needed a way to manage these servers and keep them updated ...
Creating a Nix Cache in an S3 cloud storage
This custom remote cache can help speed up your CI/CD pipeline and make deployments easier. In this post I'll walk you through the steps to create a binary cache stored in an S3-compatible object storage provider. I'll show you how to:
It takes 68 steps to deploy Odoo with NixOS
After spending a few years providing NixOS consulting, and building tooling
around it, it's time to take account. How hard is it to go from zero to a
deployed application running on NixOS?
This article aims to serve as a benchmark for future tooling.
nix-vm-test: reproducible integration tests
We released nix-vm-test, a test framework to quickly spin up a virtual machine and run tests using a single CLI command.
Nix, Docker - or both?
"It worked on my machine!"
Most of us who've worked in IT for any length of time have heard this complaint. You develop your software, you test it exhaustively. It looks great. Then you deploy it into production and it crashes. And the blame game starts.
Donating SrvOS to nix-community
SrvOS is a collection of opinionated defaults for NixOS, optimized for server environments.
Today we are giving this project to nix-community.
nixos-anywhere 1.0 release
Today, we’re announcing the release and donation of nixos-anywhere
We are deep-stack developers.
This new term came to mind when I wanted to describe our team and what we work on day-to-day.
We don't need NixOS cloud images anymore
A simple free tool lets you install NixOS remotely in the cloud - or anywhere else.
Why Choose Nix for Package Management?
Time saved with Nix > time spent learning Nix: T or F?