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Course Outline
Declarative System Sovereignty
- Why imperative configuration management leads to drift and audit failure.
- Understanding the Nix store, derivations, and pure functions for system construction.
- Comparing NixOS with traditional distributions: immutability and atomic upgrades.
Installation and Basics
- Installing NixOS from ISO with manual and automated partitioning.
- The Nix language: sets, functions, and imports.
- Structure of configuration.nix and the module system.
- Searching packages and options using nix search and man pages.
Package and Service Management
- Installing packages system-wide versus per-user with nix-env.
- Enabling systemd services declaratively.
- Custom package overrides and overlays.
- Garbage collection and store optimization.
Reproducible Environments
- Using nix-shell and shell.nix for ad-hoc development.
- Leveraging Nix Flakes for lockfile-based reproducibility.
- Utilizing devenv and devshell for streamlined team onboarding.
- Integrating Direnv for automatic environment switching.
Remote Deployment
- Managing fleets with NixOps and Colmena.
- Configuring remote building and binary caches.
- Managing secrets with agenix and sops-nix.
- Testing deployments using NixOS VMs and containers.
System Updates and Rollbacks
- Using nixos-rebuild in switch, test, and boot modes.
- Performing atomic rollbacks to previous generations.
- Managing and pinning channels for reproducible updates.
- Emergency recovery procedures and bootloader configuration.
Advanced Topics
- NixOS containers and lightweight virtualization techniques.
- Cross-compilation and ARM builds.
- Generating custom ISO and netboot images.
- Implementing Hydra continuous integration for Nix packages.
Requirements
- Advanced Linux system administration and shell scripting skills.
- Understanding of functional programming concepts.
- Familiarity with Git and version-controlled configuration workflows.
Audience
- Infrastructure engineers looking for reproducible, declarative systems.
- DevOps teams replacing Ansible, Puppet, or Chef with Nix.
- Organizations requiring bit-for-bit reproducible deployments.
21 Hours
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