[teekert]

I use NixOS and a lot of it is in a single file. I just saw some ansible coming by here, and although I have no experience with it, it looked a lot simpler than Nix (for someone from the old Linux world, like me… eventhough Nix is, looking through your eyelashes, just a pile of key/value pairs).

[eru]

Nix is great, but it still requires some training and expertise.

And the overlap between what Nix does and what the 'cloud' does for you is only partial. (Eg it can still make sense to use Nix in the cloud.)