Running NixOS in the Cloud

Yesterday I explained that Nix, or specifically NixOS, can be used to manage your entire operating system in a declarative and reproducible way.

My initial experience was running it on my laptop as a replacement for another Linux distribution, which I use to configure everything about my laptop and development environment, including my i3 window manager, Neovim and tmux configurations.

I recently also started to use it on a new VPS to host several static websites, including this one and various examples I've created as demos or for presentations.

Similarly to my laptop, I was able to declaratively install any required utilities, enable the Nginx web server, open firewall ports, add my virtual hosts and create and apply the required SSL certificates.

And I can do this locally using the same NixOS configuration files and applying it to the remote server.

Now I'm running NixOS everywhere!