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flake-utils-plus
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[Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?
You don't need channels to use nix-shell or nix-env. You can generate the Nix path and registry from your flake inputs. flake-utils-plus makes this easy with nix.generateRegistryFromInputs and nix.generateNixPathFromInputs.
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How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
Use flake-utils-plus to easily define multiple systems in flake.nix.and then use the --target-host flag of nixos-rebuild to deploy it remotely.
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Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
If you're trying to handle multiple systems with one config a flake is a significantly better option. I would personally recommend looking at flake-utils-plus and specifically this example config.
- Nix Flakes
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
I looked at some past threads / examples and saw people recommend flake-utils-plus, but after reading the examples I don't understand how I would get home-manager on Darwin or Ubuntu.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...
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What to do...
For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
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How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
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I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
Neat! I've been using flake-utils-plus's implementation until now. https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/blob/master/lib/repl.nix
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How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.
agenix
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password manager solution advice
How about: https://github.com/ryantm/agenix
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how to store secrets needed at install time
I've heard good things about and seen sops-nix used on a few really solid configs. Others tend to use Age or Homeage.
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Ask HN: A Better Docker Compose?
I don't have a write-up, just my code in git. But it's not public. I'm not using anything out of the ordinary - Nix containers, modules, and functions, and the Agenix module with uses a private key to decrypt secrets at start. The Nix language is inherently composable. Here are some links that explain:
Containers:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers
Modules:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_modules
Functions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/zzstun/please_help_m...
Agenix:
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ridiculously easy mail server setup with NixOS
For passwords I am using agenix which is also pretty awesome, an alternative could have been sops.nix.
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NixOS for Apt/Yum Users: a Gift That Keeps on Giving
Alternatively, you could simply add the wireless connection files to the Networkmanager dir in /etc using environment.etc. Though keep in mind that any file declared in your config is readable by any user in your system. agenix would be the solution to that.
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What to do...
One think I saw that I don't recommend is to change your password after installing; that's not very reporoducible, use users.users..hashedPassword or users.users..passwordFile with agenix or sops-nix.
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Understanding nixos secrets management/aws configuration
Answering your broader question (secret management) colmena does that for me outside the Nix store. I also use git-crypt to store secrets in the repo. There are also more Nix-y alternatives like agenix.
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If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong
I feel that trying to make SSH keys short-lived is becoming more painful each year because there's an increase of tools that use SSH keys for purposes other than SSH logins. For example, age [1] encrypts files with SSH keys, agenix [2] does secrets management with it, Git can now sign commits with it [3], and even ssh-keygen can now sign arbitrary data [4]. All of these become useless the moment you start using short-lived keys.
[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
[2]: https://github.com/ryantm/agenix
[3]: https://calebhearth.com/sign-git-with-ssh
[4]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ssh-keygen.1.html
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homeage: declarative runtime decrypted age secrets for home manager
I built this because I try to keep as much as possible outside of my system config but all of the secret managers I found were system only. I had no idea how to solve this until I found RaitoBezarius' awesome pull request to agenix where it all clicked. It also exposed me to the inner workings of home-manager which has definitely made me appreciate it more! I kept this separate from agenix because I am interested only in a module rather than a CLI and thus see it as having a different fit.
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How do you manage your private keys?
I've been thinking about the same thing. I haven't gotten around to it yet but agenix looked the most promising to me so far
What are some alternatives?
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
sops-nix - Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nixos-config - My NixOS configurations.
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
nixos-config - Mirror of https://code.balsoft.ru/balsoft/nixos-config
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
homeage - runtime decrypted age secrets for nix home manager
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
pass-import - A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
slips - SatoshiLabs Improvement Proposals