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by bkiran 2y ago
Appreciate the feedback. Will edit the post and check for other grammar errors
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by bkiran 2y ago
Agreed, reproducibility is a huge benefit. Being able to spin up a new machine quickly with a config you already know works is an awesome feeling.
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by bkiran 2y ago
I could never get around on longhorn or any of the other "lightweight" K8 distros. I guess that's why I spent time setting up NixOS and writing this post. Okay nice, seems like various storage services for a home lab setup. S
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by bkiran 2y ago
This hits the nail on the head. Well said. I really like being able to manage the managing and host machine in one configuration. It's a blessing from an Op's perspective.
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by bkiran 2y ago
Troubleshooting Nix is mind-numbing. For some of the benefits, it's the price that is need to be paid
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by bkiran 2y ago
Thanks for the perspective. I mainly use NixOS to run my server's not personal machines. I can see why it can be a frustrating experience for a machine that you just want to run personal stuff on. In my instance of creating server mach
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by bkiran 2y ago
Yeah I agree it's manual but it takes about 5 minutes to SCP the password onto the machine. I have some playbooks I setup to creating a new machine. All in all it takes about 10 min to get it up and running. Maybe not instant but at th
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by bkiran 2y ago
Nice, would love to know how it goes. What kind of storage and DB's are you planning to work with?
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by bkiran 2y ago
To each their own. When K8's is managed it's awesome. I would like to do without the headache of dealing with K8's installation or some orchestrator layer. I can "schedule" my on application instances at the size I&
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Deploying Containers on NixOS: A Guide(bkiran.com)
86 points by bkiran 2y ago|58 comments
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by bkiran 3y ago
I'm using Cap'N Proto in a message broker application(LcuidMQ) I'm building for serialization. It has allowed me to created client applications rather quickly. There are some quirks can be difficult to wrap your head around,
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by bkiran 4y ago
I've been working on something that may fit your criteria. The API is kafka-like and it's whole goal is to provide an easy to use local-first stream datastore/data-engine. It currently only has support for Rust and Python cli
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by bkiran 5y ago
I'm a dev-ops engineer by day. I creating a simple to standup and use message queue(similar to kafka and rabbitmq) in Golang. As of right now, the project is solely to learn more about Go and internals of the commit log. https:/&