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ALASCA Tech Talk #41
Cyberus Linux: Immutable Bare-Metal Systems with NixOS.
Julian Stecklina, Cyberus Linux Technical Lead | Cyberus Technology GmbH
Virtualised and containerised workloads made the transition to immutable infrastructure years ago, yet physical bare-metal deployments remain predominantly mutable. Most data centres still manage physical hosts by patching live operating systems, leading to inevitable configuration drift.
Bare-metal infrastructure requires the operational rigour of embedded systems: strict homogeneity, minimal attack surfaces and deterministic states. This presentation details how Cyberus Linux applies embedded security patterns, such as immutable root filesystems, TPM-enrolled cryptographic trust chains, and A/B updates, to environments ranging from resource-constrained appliances to large-scale physical servers.
Unlike immutable distributions that restrict operators to vendor-approved use cases, Cyberus Linux utilises the Nix ecosystem to provide full customisability and workload agnosticism.
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