Ashley Mensah is a Developer Relations engineer at NetBird, working on open source networking and developer experience. An avid homelabber, He runs his entire lab on NixOS and is passionate about applying declarative principles to real-world infrastructure problems, from mesh networking to reproducible systems and security.

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Declarative Mesh Networking with Nix

Mesh networking solves the problem of connecting machines across locations, but today it is rarely declarative. Homelabs and enterprises alike rely on imperative setup or low-level WireGuard configurations. This talk shows how Nix can be used to declaratively manage mesh networking with NetBird, reducing drift while improving reliability, security, and reproducibility through open source tooling.

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