[Nix-dev] 1000 EUR for a week of work with Nix and NixOps

[zimbatm]

s/start the machines either trough nixops/start the machines either trough
terraform/

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 at 15:06 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:

> Hi Seroka,
>
> I would like to recommend terraform for the orchestration layer and then
> use a pull model to deploy nix channels to your servers.
>
> nixops is fantastic and I use it to deploy to my two servers but I don't
> think it's the best solution to manage a constantly-changing fleet of
> servers. When deploying a bigger infrastructure you want things like:
> support for auto-scaling and shared deploy state between machines. Also
> terraform has a much richer community and supports more cloud providers out
> of the box.
>
> The approach would be to start the machines either trough nixops or trough
> provider-specific tools like Amazon's ASG and provision the
> configuration.nix file during boot and finally run `nixos-rebuild switch
> --upgrade`. The configuration would be setup to pull from one of your
> private hydra channels. You can also use terraform to ssh into all of the
> boxes if you want to control the rate of deploys.
>
> Let me know if you want more details. It's pretty clear in my head but
> didn't have the chance to implement this yet. I think Rok Garbas did
> something similar for his personal setup if you want to talk to him.
>
> Best,
> z
>
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 at 07:28 Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fellow nixers,
>>
>> I'm Arseniy Seroka, founder of Serokell.
>> We already use Nix on a daily basis while working on our projects. For
>> one such
>> project, rscoin[1], we need to come up with a way of deploying and
>> running it
>> on a multitude of cloud services. Naturally, we're looking at NixOps to
>> do that.
>> We have a pretty tight deadline — we need to get it done by July 29th,
>> hence we're seeking for aid in this goal.
>> We want to hire a nixer with a good background in NixOps for the next
>> week and
>> we intend to pay up to 1000 EUR for forty hours of work.
>> We're also open for some follow-up contracts with nixers, such as
>> contributing
>> to our long-running Haskell Overlay initiative or setting up elaborate
>> Hydra-based CI infrastructure. RSCoin is a great project that uses
>> Haskell and
>> PureScript, we think you'll have fun contributing to its usability and
>> deployability!
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/input-output-hk/rscoin-haskell
>>
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