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Really good blogpost, as a sysadmin, this is a great way to handle a migration with zero downtime.
When I was migrating my servers to NixOS I did the same thing, I tried to make my configuration the same as the old OS so everything works cleanly, and it worked fine, but since it was all in the same server, I had to do manual migration for things like files and databases.