Nice write up, but wondering now what nix proposes in that space. I've never used nix or nixos but a quick search led me to nixops, and then realized v4 is ent

Nice write up, but wondering now what nix proposes in that space. I've never used nix or nixos but a quick search led me to nixops, and then realized v4 is entirely being rewritten in rust. I'm surprised they chose rust for glue code, and not a more dynamic and expressive language that could make things less rigid and easier to amend. In the clojure world BigConfig [0], which I never used, would be my next stop in the build/integrate/deploy story, regardless of tech stack. It integrates workflow and templating with the full power of a dynamic language to compose various setups, from dot/yaml/tf/etc files to ops control planes (see their blog). [0] https://bigconfig.it/ https://bigconfig.it/