sops-nix
Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops (by Mic92)
homeage
runtime decrypted age secrets for nix home manager (by jordanisaacs)
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sops-nix
Posts with mentions or reviews of sops-nix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-19.
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Show me the way to cloud infra
For applications, I think environment variables are great. Especially if you adopt nomad because you could also use vault to populate secrets in. For machines that won't work so you'll need something else like https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix
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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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Nix way to recreate environments including authentication, configuration, etc?
You can use something like sops-nix if you're on NixOS https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix.
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
Yeah, I don't know how to manage secrets yet. I've read about sops-nix, but I don't have the slightest clue how to integrate it into my own nix-config.
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What would make NixOS more secure?
I use sops-nix for that. Secrets are stored encrypted in the store, and decrypted at runtime.
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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.
- How to handle secrets in NixOS (for Docker container and Systemd Services)?
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How do you manage your private keys?
So, I did some digging. According to the first Dicourse chat that popped up, it's "not possible". That's not an acceptable answer for me ;). I read through HM's appendix to see if there's a mention of private keys there (there weren't). I also know of SOPS (and sops-nix), but that seems to require an SSH/GPG key to decrypt :D.
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A guide to build a Raspberry Pi cluster managed by NixOps
If you only need secrets management, there are quite a lot of bolt-on solutions with little overhead which are also agnostic to the form of deployment, like https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix or https://github.com/ryantm/agenix. Personally for my machines I want unattended reboots, so I just copy all keys to the hard disk and manage secrets solely with file permissions.
homeage
Posts with mentions or reviews of homeage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-26.
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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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homeage: declarative runtime decrypted age secrets for home manager
yep! I plan on reintroducing the systemd unit. Issue is here: https://github.com/jordanisaacs/homeage/issues/7.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sops-nix and homeage you can also consider the following projects:
agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
vault-secrets - NixOS tooling for Hashicorp Vault
nix-starter-configs - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
agenix.el - Transparent editing for agenix secrets inside Emacs
nixfiles - My NixOS configuration and assorted other crap.
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
nixos-config - Mirror of https://code.balsoft.ru/balsoft/nixos-config
dotfiles - My NixOS dotfiles
nixos-config - My NixOS configurations.
agenix-rekey - An agenix extension adding secret generation and automatic rekeying using a YubiKey or master-identity