On: Pyinfra – automate infrastructure super fast at sc...

[ghostwriter]

What advantages does Pyinfra have over NixOps?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

[jackhalford → ghostwriter]

> NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or the cloud

seems like pyinfra is OS agnostic.

[zoom6628 → jackhalford]

Just checked out the NixOps manual https://nixos.org/nixops/manual/ and it seems able to deploy to NixOS machines on any cloud or LAN platform. But i also do not find any mention of it being able to deploy non-NixOS servers.

[ghostwriter → zoom6628]

The question is why would you want to have non-nixos servers in that case. If the goal is to have super-fast automation, you still need to unify your setup around something common. I see more benefits in unifying around NixOS than in unifying around Ansible/Pyinfra, as the latter require me to specify my infra in terms of low-level OS- and distro-specific package managers, that would eventually define the same lack of "OS agnostic portability".

[ghostwriter → jackhalford]

The frontpage shows that it relies at least on apt-get:

    from pyinfra.modules import apt

    apt.packages(
        {'Install iftop'},
        'iftop',
        sudo=True,
    )

And search over docs doesn't produce results for Windows/MacOS

* https://pyinfra.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.5/search.html?q=wind...

* https://pyinfra.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.5/search.html?q=maco...

[detaro → ghostwriter]

it supporting apt doesn't mean it "relies on apt". Looking at the list of options, it supports multiple package managers, including ones for Windows and MacOS.

[ghostwriter → detaro]

but then, if one needs to use low-level primitives representing specific package managers, it's hardly aligned with a claim of "super fast infrastructure automation". With Nix I have exactly one package manager for any target platform.