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About this episode

NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager, a purely functional package manager. In NixOS, a system configuration is built from a declarative specification capturing the complete system configuration. Moreover, because of the Nix heritage, a user can safely and efficiently install multiple configurations next to each other without interference. This allows users to perform atomic upgrades and rollbacks of a complete Linux distribution.In this talk we explain how we can use NixOS to manage a network of machines by using a declarative specification of a network of NixOS configurations.

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• Release Date

  Feb 5, 2011

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  50:30