NixCon 2024

Clan: Fully-automated distributed NixOS management
2024-10-25 , Arena

Self-hosting services empowers you with greater control and flexibility over your data. However, maintaining such systems today often comes with significant technical challenges, including firewall/NAT configuration, data loss prevention, and security management.

The Clan project aims to lower the technical barriers of self-hosting with NixOS, making it accessible even to non-technical users. Our goal is to simplify the installation and maintenance of NixOS machines.

In this talk, we will present the new NixOS extensions we've developed to scale self-hosting, including VPN integration, backup management, secret management, a unified CLI for installation and updates, and an inventory system for managing clusters of machines.

We will also provide a sneak preview of the upcoming graphical user interface.


What level of experience in Nix is the talk addressed to?:

From beginner to expert

Do you allow your talk to be recorded?: yes
See also: Slides (9.4 MB)

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