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Coming from Ansible in the past for configuration management and various deployments of Gentoo as a base-distribution, the fact Nix employees similar concepts but more declarative and less 'ad-hoc' has a certain intrigue to it.

Curious from others who used similar in the past and use Nix now think about it.

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If you ever interrupted a not perfect Ansible playbook mid way through you will know the pain to repair that which NixOS will never have.

Ansible is less declarative, but it's basically just ssh. No agents, no custom user installs no OS. So it depends what your aim is.

Ansible is great to deploy stuff with. Not perfect and not like terraform+k8s/docker.

Nix may be more for developers, as you'll end up developing for it.

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