Courtesy Issue: VictoriaTraces in nixpkgs & NixOS

[cmacrae]

Hello, lovely VM people 👋

I hope you don't mind this issue being opened, please do feel free to close it if you feel it's unnecessary :)

Just a quick note to say: I've opened NixOS/nixpkgs#441750, which packages VictoriaTraces and provides a NixOS service module for declaratively running VT. I've been using it for the past week-or-so, along with the other existing service modules for VictoriaLogs & VictoriaMetrics.
I haven't used the VM suite before, and I have to say: it's absolutely delightful ✨ thank you all for sharing such great software with the world!

Hopefully the nixpkgs PR is merged fairly soon - do let me know if there's anywhere I should update documentation to note its general availability, but I do also understand this is more likely something avoided in your general docs and instead left to documentation of various distribution channels

[zekker6]

Hello @cmacrae, thank you for working on adding VictoriaTraces to nixpkgs!

Hopefully the nixpkgs PR is merged fairly soon - do let me know if there's anywhere I should update documentation to note its general availability, but I do also understand this is more likely something avoided in your general docs and instead left to documentation of various distribution channels

Each component has a "quick start" page where we do have all installation options which are currently available, if you'd like to feel free to add nixpkgs there as well. Here are the doc pages I'm referring to:

• https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/quick-start/#how-to-install
• https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/quickstart/#how-to-install-and-run-victorialogs
• https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriatraces/quick-start/#how-to-install