Also, quite similar to 'cloud-config' I guess, there's a way to declaritively describe deployments to your favorite Cloud Provider TM https://nixos.org/nixops/
As the world is moving to declarative deployments, and once the docker hype settles, I think operating systems like NixOS will prevail as they're a great solution to the problem.
What is cool though is that containers are supported natively in nixos (through systemd) https://nixos.org/releases/nixos/14.12/nixos-14.12.374.61adf...
Also, quite similar to 'cloud-config' I guess, there's a way to declaritively describe deployments to your favorite Cloud Provider TM https://nixos.org/nixops/
As the world is moving to declarative deployments, and once the docker hype settles, I think operating systems like NixOS will prevail as they're a great solution to the problem.