The Road Towards a NixOS UI
Qubasa and Kenji Berthold
Imagine a Sim-City-style interface for managing your infrastructure: drag a machine onto the field, connect it to a service, and you're done.
Behind the scenes, the clan.lol project turns that visual layout into the correct Nix modules - automatically configuring machines, managing secrets, and setting up a mesh VPN.
In this presentation we detail:
- Visualize and Configure Networks in 3D
- A "Sim City" inspired 3D-UI to configure your selfhosted network without writing Nix!
- Portable Multi-Machine Module System
- Network-wide modules that configure multiple machines
- Support for complex, role based relationships between machines (e.g. client, server)
- Generation and distribution of secrets via generators
- Multi VPN support
- Support for running multiple VPNs at once
- Deployment picks best suitable VPN connection
- Extensible interface so users can define their own.
- Multi-Platform support
- Integrated MacOS support with nix-darwin.
- Service Provisioning support