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| | blog.thalheim.io
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| | In this article, I will explain how to perform full integration tests with flakes outside nixpkgs. With NixOS testing framework, you can create end-to-end integration tests easily. It all comes down to starting a virtual machine based on your custom modules and testing its state with a Python script. This way, you can identify in advance all the regressions and incompatible configurations arising from the updates you introduced. One of the framework's upsides is that it's extremely fast - maybe the faste...
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| | tonyfinn.com
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| | Flakes are a mechanism for describing a collection of Nix resources, and are central to much of the new improved interfaces added to Nix in recent years. This post outlines their benefits and creation of a couple of example flakes.
| | stephank.nl
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| [AI summary] The author shares a technical guide on migrating personal NixOS configurations to use flakes, detailing methods for remote deployment, managing automatic upgrades on different systems, and setting up a private Git hosting server.