The Road
 Towards a 
NixOS UI (nixcon2025)

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 about this event: https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/KX7AMW/