[Nix-dev] ANNOUNCE: NixOps 1.0

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 25/06/13 14:29, phreedom at yandex.ru wrote:

> Automatic tunnels sound cool :)
> One question though. Can it completely manage physical machines, including 
> kernels and whatnot?

Yes, NixOps deploys complete NixOS configurations (it basically does a remote
"nixos-rebuild switch", except that it builds the configuration locally).  For
instance, the NixOS machines in the Hydra build farm are managed with NixOps.

Of course the precondition is that the machine already has NixOS on it and is
reachable via SSH.

> What would happen if the machine is rebooted, esp if
> using an old config?

If you reboot you get the kernel belonging to the latest configuration you
deployed to the machine.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/