kubenix

I would say Nix's cloud native story is "best in class". you can take any nixos configuration and turn it into a cloud image https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators You can take any nix package and turn it into a docker image https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20720922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111954 You can even use Nix to create and deploy cloud resources ala Terraform: github.com/nixos/nixops Some other notable uses of Nix in cloud native landscape: https://github.com/saschagrunert/kubernix - a KIND alternative https://github.com/xtruder/kubenix a Nix DSL for defining and deploying entire kubernetes clusters + deployments (combines nix's docker image building support and deployment support for and end to end cloud-native solution) I personally think Nix should heavily market itself to the CLoud Native buzzwo

Use nixos to run your k8 cluster if you are insane (or have the $$$ for salaries) enough to run your own k8. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/s... Specifically "services.kubernetes.apiserver.enable = true" My strong recommendation is to use nix to generate super optimised and amazing docker images then use them with k8 on a PaaS. https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-zfs If using k8 (self host or PaaS), keep an eye on https://github.com/xtruder/kubenix as it'll blow your mind. Noyaml, infrastructure testing framework, deployment etc using nix.

Huh, why build an entirely proprietary language for this? There are existing toolchains that bend existing rich configuration languages, like Nix [0] or Dhall [1], to produce Kubernetes object definitions. In this way, not only can existing libraries be leveraged, but no new semantics have to be learned, and no third party needs their palms crossed. This had to be pointed out; Pulumi's docs repeat the adjective "real", as if its competitors aren't real. "real code", "real package management" [2], "real languages" [3], "real programming model" [4]... Nix and Dhall are quite real, though. So is this an incomplete survey, or are Pulumi's docs unrealistically self-aggrandizing? TBH even just this one paragraph of yours is pretty tough to stomach, as if loops and functions in a configuration language were a novel concept. [0] https://github.co