Comment on Containers in NixOS
ReedReads@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
What services are you running in your pods/containers? Are they local applications like libreoffice or are they network accessible in the more traditional style? What’s the advantage to running a podman container on your machine vs a Flatpak container?
Sorry for all the questions. This is an interesting setup and I’m just really curious.
ftbd@feddit.org 3 days ago
These containers are running on various servers I have at home, not on a desktop machine. I use podman as an alternative to docker, because it’s fully libre and does not require running containers as root. To be honest, I’ve never thought about running flatpak containers for these kinds of services – do you have a setup like this that you want to share?
ReedReads@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That makes sense. I’ve always thought of NixOS is a desktop, not as a server. Guess I need to expand my thinking!
I run Fedora Server with podman and docker side by side. I try to use podman whenever possible but sometimes it’s not worth the hassle so that’s when it becomes a docker container 😬
ftbd@feddit.org 3 days ago
I’d say NixOS is great for servers, mostly. Only having to worry about certain things (secure boot with custom keys, FDE, partition layout, network, sshd, firejail, etc.) once, and then replicating the same setup on another machine is waaay more convenient than going “I wonder what I was thinking when setting up this machine” once in a while when looking at some machine again you haven’t touched in some time. When it comes to desktop usage, the whole thing does not feel as magical - configuring system options in e.g. KDE is still a lot of clicking around in a GUI. I still use it for my desktop machine, just so I don’t have to think about another distro.