considering using nixos for my homelab when I redo my infra this summer
rn everything is bare-metal Arch with some Docker containers on top. I wanna get rid of the Docker containers because I don't like how opaque they make my dependencies, so I'm planning on moving everything over to proxmox VMs to maintain separation of concerns while still keeping easy direct access to the shell and configuration and deps and all that
however. doing so either requires me to manually manage all of the upgrades and configuration and everything for the software running inside those VMs, or to use some kind of automation tool to handle deployment, updates, management, etc.
I could use Ansible, but Ansible has some problems (like removing a package from your playbook doesn't always remove it from your system)... and nix is really starting to look appealing
someone please talk me out of this. I'm a rust programmer, so I have some idea how functional stuff works, but writing nix code still kind of sounds like pain and suffering, and I'm really looking for a better solution... but right now nix is looking really good
