NixOS friendly hosters
1st class NixOS support | |
| Packet | NixOS on Packet |
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| Linode | Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode |
| VPS2day | When ordering or configuring, the "Manual Install (Advanced)" option includes NixOS. Installation is done through a web-based console. |
Support NixOS via custom ISO | |
| Vultr | nixos.wiki is running on a NixOS VPS at Vultr |
| netcup | NixOS ISO can be uploaded via FTP to be available in the server control panel.
(in the SCP, navigate to: 'Media' → 'Images') See the official netcup documentation. |
| Hetzner Online | Hetzner provides an interface to upload your own ISO-images. However you may want to build your own iso-image, which has openssh with ssh keys due the lack of a remote console. An easier method to install NixOS on Hetzner, is to use the existing integration into NixOps. |
| LiteServer | NixOS ISO is available from the control panel. |
| BuyVM | An ISO file for NixOS 17.03 is available via the Stallion control panel, under CD-ROM > Development. |
Other means of installation | |
| Amazon EC2 | See NixOS on Amazon EC2 |
| Online | See Install NixOS on Online.Net |
| Rackspace | See Install NixOS on Rackspace Cloud Servers |
| OVH / Kimsufi / So you Start | See this blogpost by Augustin Borsu |
| Google Cloud Platform | See Installing NixOS on GCE |
| Digital Ocean | nixos-infect can be used to transform an existing installation into NixOS. This method will be also used in NixOps. |
| Scaleway | The kexec method works well, but bear in mind it only works with the 'virtual' class of servers, as they run under a hypervisor which attaches the disks before the kernel boots. The 'bare-metal' servers rely on a special Linux kernel booting to attach network /dev/nbdX drives which works only with Scaleway supplied images.
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Hoster-agnostic means of installation
This section links to or explains methods that can be used on various providers. As always, with unsupported hosts and unsupported distributions, your mileage may vary.
Not all providers allow to upload own images or provide NixOS images for installation. However there are a few ways to install NixOS anyhow. nixos-in-place and nixos-infect are generic approaches to install NixOS from an existing Linux. A different approach is to build an kexec-based image to start the installer from an booted linux as shown in this repo, this allows for changing the underlying filesystem. See Install NixOS on a Server With a Different Filesystem.
See also the NixOps project, which also provides interfaces to different cloud providers.