diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4e47a50078a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nixops/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ lib, pythonPackages, fetchurl, libxslt, docbook5_xsl }:
+
+pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "nixops-1.0";
+  namePrefix = "";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://nixos.org/releases/nixops/${name}/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "9ae2dfac8e1fa895aef81323b14a3398f03a1cbd8c86ea10b6fff7312e1fadbb";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ libxslt ];
+
+  pythonPath =
+    [ pythonPackages.prettytable
+      pythonPackages.boto
+      pythonPackages.sqlite3
+    ];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  postInstall =
+    ''
+      make -C doc/manual install nixops.1 docbookxsl=${docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook \
+        docdir=$out/share/doc/nixops mandir=$out/share/man
+
+      mkdir -p $out/share/nix/nixops
+      cp -av nix/* $out/share/nix/nixops
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = https://github.com/NixOS/nixops;
+    description = "NixOS cloud provisioning and deployment tool";
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.eelco lib.maintainers.rob ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 404a36bb2b9d..23c0e7b0adf3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9384,6 +9384,8 @@ let
   };
   */
 
+  nixops = callPackage ../tools/package-management/nixops { };
+
   nut = callPackage ../applications/misc/nut { };
 
   solfege = callPackage ../misc/solfege {