[Nix-dev] ANNOUNCE: NixOps 1.0

[Domen Kožar]

Congratz :)

If time permits, I'll try to make a lightning talk for EuroPython next week.

Domen


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm proud to announce the first public release of NixOps, the NixOS cloud
> deployment tool.  Release 1.0 can be found here:
>
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nixops/nixops-1.0
>
> NixOps is now in Nixpkgs, so once the Nixpkgs channel is up to date, you
> can
> install it by running "nix-env -i nixops".  More installation and usage
> instructions can be found in the manual:
>
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/build/5426864/download/1/manual/manual.html
>
> The source code and issue tracker is here:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
>
> NixOps (formerly known as Charon) is a tool for provisioning and deploying
> NixOS
> machines from declarative specifications.  It essentially extends NixOS'
> declarative specification of single machines to networks of machines.  For
> example, the following specifies a network of two NixOS machines, one
> running
> Apache and the other running PostgreSQL:
>
>   { webserver =
>       { services.httpd.enable = true;
>         services.httpd.documentRoot = ...;
>         deployment.targetEnv = "ec2";
>         deployment.ec2.region = "eu-west-1";
>       };
>
>     database =
>       { services.postgresql.enable = true;
>         deployment.targetEnv = "ec2";
>         deployment.ec2.region = "us-east-1";
>       };
>   }
>
> After specifying this network, running "nixops deploy" will instantiate
> these as
> virtual machines in the Amazon EC2 cloud.  Redeploying is a matter of
> changing
> the specification and rerunning "nixops deploy".  NixOps will then take any
> steps necessary to ensure that the actual configuration of the system
> matches
> the desired configuration.
>
> There are many commands for managing or interacting with deployed
> machines, such
> as "nixops ssh" to log in to a machine, "nixops ssh-for-each" to execute a
> command on every machine, "nixops check" to determine the status of each
> machine, and so on.
>
> NixOps is not tied to EC2: it currently has backends for pre-existing
> physical
> or virtual machines, for VirtualBox, and for EC2.  The VirtualBox backend
> makes
> it easy to do test deployments before deploying to (say) EC2 for
> production, and
> to provision test environments for development (a la Vagrant).  NixOps also
> supports provisioning of non-machine cloud resources such as Amazon S3
> buckets
> or EC2 key pairs.
>
> Feedback, patches and bug reports are welcome!
>
> --
> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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