nix-config
deploy-rs
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nix-config
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What is the current recommended documentation when starting out with NixOs?
All the resources mentioned in other comments are pretty good, but mostly they are unofficial. The official NixOS wiki is very outdated and unmaintained. You will have better luck reading other people’s configurations, nixpkgs source code and GitHub issues. For the nix language the official wiki is a nice reference https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/index.html. This configuration is a great starting point https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config for learning by example. It covers most of what you may need, although bootstrapping your own config is quite rough. You may want to take a look at https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs. It’s very basic and should be simple to understand and improve.
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My First Impressions of Nix
Yes. E.g. some guy's config with 6 different machines[1]: multiple desktops, laptops, servers, a Raspberry Pi, and a VPS. That's a rather advanced use of Nix for configuration, but definitely shows what it's capable of.
[1] https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config
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Tool for commiting and tagging when rebuilding
https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config/blob/main/hosts/celaeno/services/hydra/lib/release-host-branch.nix https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config/blob/main/hosts/celaeno/services/hydra/default.nix#L39
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introducing packwiz2nix: one of the best tools for creating minecraft modpacks, now compatible with nix!
Implementation: https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config/blob/main/pkgs/fetch-packwiz-pack/default.nix
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Looking for examples of a fully declarative system
the one i reference all the time is https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
I believe Misterio77's does use it in his config.
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Impermanence, wipe root on boot, possible?
I reuse the same btrfs logic on all my computers, including a RPi: https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config/blob/main/hosts/common/btrfs-optin-persistence.nix
- Who's here runs NixOS with opt in state?
deploy-rs
- 20 Years of Nix
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
deploy-rs
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Deploy-rs is a great alternative. It works as wrapper on top of flakes, local (optionally, cross-) building and copying closures to target machine with activation:
https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs
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How do you manage your updates?
The SSH key I made for this uses yubikey authentication, and every time this opens a SSH connection it will ask for the key. There's some options you can add so multiple SSH sessions can use a single connection, but the current version isn't really working well with them (see e.g. https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs/issues/106)
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What's a good service for hosting a personal NixOS server?
I haven't really been in the market for something like this in a long while, but NixOS solved a lot of my headaches when it comes to maintaining a VPS and I'd like to try giving this a shot again. I'm not really interested in cloud/microservice/docker/cluser/whatever, I just want to use something like deploy-rs with a single host and maybe a VPN service like tailscale. What sorts of providers would y'all recommend?
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Best practices for organizing code repository for multiple machines? What about deployment?
I've messed around with deploy.rs. Simple enough to know what's going on.
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deploy-rs and colmena should combine efforts
https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs -- see: https://serokell.io/blog/deploy-rs
- A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool
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The best solution for deploying flakes
There are 4 tools I'm taking into consideration right now, but every suggestion is welcome: 1. deploy-rs - I don't know anything about it, heard about it like a day or two ago 2. NixOps - the official one, I don't know what to think, but I have concerns about Flakes compatibility 3. morph - I understand this as "NixOps, but better", no more toughs. 4. colmena - seems to be pretty straightforward with quite nice docs
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GitOps for NixOS
deploy-rs is great for this as well
What are some alternatives?
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
rasp-nix - My Raspberry Pi(4) NixOS Configuration
nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
morph - NixOS deployment tool
infra - NixOS configurations for nixos.org and its servers
infra
flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.
nix-starter-configs - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.