Introducing NXD: Declarative Infrastructure Reconciliation for Nix-Authored State

Introducing NXD: Declarative Infrastructure Reconciliation for Nix-Authored State NixOS solved the operating system. It did not solve what the operating system runs on. My hosts are pure functions of pinned source. The Proxmox cluster underneath them was configured by clicking. The Headscale tailnet they join was enrolled by hand. The PBS appliance holding their backups had its retention policy stored in a web UI and nowhere else. I had perfect reproducibility above the hypervisor and none below it — and the seam between the two is exactly where my outages came from. ...

August 4, 2026 · 6 min · 1256 words · LamT