Show HN: Machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

Category: infrastructure

Tags: nixos, vm-management, cli

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 5, Utility: 7)

Machine0 is a CLI-driven service for provisioning persistent NixOS or Ubuntu VMs with dedicated resources, static IPs, and per-minute billing, designed for long-running tasks and reproducible builds. It integrates with Nix flakes for deterministic configurations, supports snapshots and suspension to control costs, and offers pre-configured images for agent workloads. The project is interesting for bringing cloud VM management entirely into the terminal with an emphasis on developer experience and automation.

Target audience: devops

Repository: https://machine0.io · Nix

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