I'm using NixOps in production, EC2, Hetzner, VBox with no issues. Of course, commit NixOps state (JSON) in git with git-crypt. And this wrapper for NixOps:
#!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail NIXPKGS=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-15.09.tar.gz NIXOPS=${NIXOPS:-nixops} export NIX_PATH=nixpkgs="$NIXPKGS":. usage () { cat <<USAGE Usage: $0 <nixops command> <realm/spec.nix> [nixops options] Examples: $0 deploy realms/vbox.nix $0 info realms/vbox.nix $0 deploy realms/dumpoo.nix --build-only $0 destroy realms/cats.nix --include slothcat USAGE } fatal () { echo '** ERROR:' "$@" >&2 usage >&2 exit 1 } if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then fatal "missing agruments." fi CMD="$1"; shift REALM_NIX="$1"; shift case "$REALM_NIX" in *realms/*.nix) REALM=$(basename "$REALM_NIX" .nix);; *) fatal "invalid realm spec: $REALM_NIX";; esac cd "$(dirname "$0")" state="secrets/nixops-${REALM}.json" db=$(mktemp -u "secrets/tmp.${REALM}.XXXXXX.nixops") trap 'save' EXIT save() { if [ -f "$db" ]; then "$NIXOPS" export -s "${db}" > "${state}.tmp" mv "${state}.tmp" "${state}" rm -f "$db"* fi } create() { "$NIXOPS" create -s "$db" -d "$REALM" "<realms/${REALM}.nix>" } case "$CMD" in create) [ ! -f "$state" ] || fatal "\`$state' already exists." create ;; *) [ -f "$state" ] || fatal "\`$state' does not exists." "$NIXOPS" import -s "${db}" < "$state" "$NIXOPS" "$CMD" -s "$db" -d "$REALM" "$@" ;; esac And makefile for development with vbox; REALM = cats override STATE = secrets/nixops-vbox-$(REALM).json build: $(STATE) ./let deploy realms/vbox-$(REALM).nix --build-only destroy: ./let $@ realms/vbox-$(REALM).nix --confirm info deploy check send-keys start stop reboot: $(STATE) ./let $@ realms/vbox-$(REALM).nix $(STATE): ./let create realms/vbox-$(REALM).nix 2016-09-05 19:01 GMT+03:00 Aloïs Cochard <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > We are experimenting with NixOps and we are having great success. We do plan > to use it for our development infrastructure, and it seems to be very > promising. > > In the light of applying the same technology on our production stack, I'm > curious to know how NixOps is used "for real"? Do you use it in production? > > Do you have some success story to share? > > Would love to know more about how it is used, the size of clusters, ... > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Λ\oïs > http://twitter.com/aloiscochard > http://github.com/aloiscochard > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
