Craig Jackson is a DevOps Engineer at NetActuate, a global infrastructure and networking services provider. He's been a BSD/Linux Hobbyist since his teens, and was an orthopedic surgical sales consultant for 15 years. Craig's passions are development, operations, and supporting  NetActuate's edge networking customers. He focuses on DevOps workflows and providing flexibility and efficiency for customer deployments.

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Eureka! NixOS solves a major pain point for global edge deployments

This talk illustrates a novel use case for NixOS—a cloud-native deployment model that treats edge nodes as declarative, reproducible systems while preserving the flexibility required for real-world networking and hardware constraints. It uses Cloud-init to inject secrets, metadata, and environment-specific parameters; a startup shell script to generate a NixOS configuration; and a nixos-rebuild to transition the system into a fully persistent, self-managed state.

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