Deploying a Simple Node.js Application with NixOps
In a previous post I described how Nix could be used to easily set up a development environment without the use of virtual machines alternatives like Vagrant require. As an example I used setting up a development environment for a simple “Hello world” node.js application. At the very end I teased that the work we did could easily be reused to actually deploy our node.js application:
Because we’re essentially unifying development environments and deployment environments, we have now also specified a lot of information that NixOps needs to actually deploy this application to a server. We’ll get into that in a future post.
It’s time to make good on that promise. Let’s see how we can deploy our awesome hello world application to a newly created VirtualBox VM. Then, when we convinced ourselves this works correctly, let’s reuse the same Nix configuraton to deploy to EC2.
