···11# What is Wire?
2233-Wire is a tool to deploy NixOS systems. Its configuration is a superset\[^1\] of [colmena](https://colmena.cli.rs/), however it is **not** a fork.
33+Wire is a tool to deploy NixOS systems. Its configuration is a superset[^1] of [colmena](https://colmena.cli.rs/), however it is **not** a fork.
4455-\[^1\]: Any colmena configuration will continue to work with wire, but wire has additional ergonomic changes you can take advantage of.
55+[^1]: Any colmena configuration will continue to work with wire, but wire has additional ergonomic changes you can take advantage of.
6677::: warning
88Wire is alpha software, please use at your own risk. Many features listed in this documentation may not be complete / implemented.
···2525| Secret Management | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
2626| Parallel Evaluation | :white_check_mark: | [Experimental](https://colmena.cli.rs/unstable/features/parallelism.html#parallel-evaluation-experimental) |
2727| Node Tagging | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
2828-| `jq` pipeline support | :white_check_mark: | :x:\[^2\] |
2828+| `jq` pipeline support | :white_check_mark: | :x:[^2] |
2929| Magic Rollback | :white_check_mark: (Planned) | :x: |
30303131-\[^2\]: You need to write custom nix code to use Colmena hive metadata inside environments like CI pipelines, bash scripting, etc., which requires a knowledge of its internals.
3131+[^2]: You need to write custom nix code to use Colmena hive metadata inside environments like CI pipelines, bash scripting, etc., which requires a knowledge of its internals.