Kinda cool how the configs work, but it feels like you need to rely a little too much on having premade configs available for the things you want to do.
A lot of software exposes the general “config” or “environment” object too. Thanks to that I haven’t encountered many things I couldn’t go in my Nix config for already packaged services.
And you can always fall back to Docker in Nix, which has the benefit of all the flexibility and will still declaratively declare your deployments.
So in practice this works out very well in my case, I haven’t had to fight Nix (apart from the initial learning curve).
Kinda cool how the configs work, but it feels like you need to rely a little too much on having premade configs available for the things you want to do.
A lot of software exposes the general “config” or “environment” object too. Thanks to that I haven’t encountered many things I couldn’t go in my Nix config for already packaged services.
And you can always fall back to Docker in Nix, which has the benefit of all the flexibility and will still declaratively declare your deployments.
So in practice this works out very well in my case, I haven’t had to fight Nix (apart from the initial learning curve).