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Disko Alternatives
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nixos-config
General purpose Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS (with starter templates!) (by dustinlyons)
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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nixos-anywhere
Install NixOS everywhere via SSH [maintainers=@Mic92 @Lassulus @phaer @Enzime @a-kenji]
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nixverse
Filesystem-based nix flake framework for multi-node configurations, cascading secrets management, parallel deployments, etc.
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nix
nix flake with my personal default settings ⚠️ Copy bits and pieces at your own risk (by stapelberg)
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I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
> Note that the author used disko to partition the disk declaratively. Disko won't work for a machine with very limited ram, because disko run in the installer, and needs to install tools to the ram to do the partition.
This is only true if you use the disko-install tool, which is a horrible footgun[^1]. The safest approach is to just use the default disko command, then nixos-install.
[^1]: https://github.com/nix-community/disko/issues/947
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My new Nix series!
Atop all this is the Nix Operating System, or NixOS. NixOS brings all of the declarative goodness of Nix into a Linux distribution. This means that (almost) everything about your system is declarative, including the packages (obviously), the users, the desktop, the login manager, systemd units, containers, and among other things, even the bootloader! Through some extensions, you can also partition disks, build images, and even configure your home folder. A single NixOS configuration is built into multiple pre-configured operating systems using just a single command!
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Obscura: The VPN that can't track your activity
It's mostly bash scripts (I know I have stockholm syndrome there) and nixos-rebuild: https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/01/announcing-nixos-rebui...
All the nix deployment tools had too much magic and broke, but nixos-rebuild always works and it's part of Nix!
Disko was great for bootstrapping servers: https://github.com/nix-community/disko
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NixOS Impermanence
I'm now running impermanence on NixOS servers. Setting it up was slightly more work, obviously, but it's been... freeing in a sense. My confidence that I can rebuild all servers at any time and that all the peculiarities of my setup are documented have never been higher.
Rather than using a script for setup, I am using disko [0] with nixos-anywhere [1] and a small home-grown script that integrates with 1Password for deployments and it's wonderful, because everything including disk formatting is now purely declarative.
[0] https://github.com/nix-community/disko
[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere
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Possible to make a machine independent NixOS configuration/flake?
Your can also look at disko
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disko-images - Create qcow2 images from NixOS + disko configuration
It's a simple NixOS module that creates disk images from your disko configuration, with NixOS installed onto them.
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Hardware configuration in nix flake dotfiles?
The closest thing would be to look at the live disk implementation, but obviously it doesn't automount any files systems. I think particular to disk problems, disko is supposed to help: https://github.com/nix-community/disko but I haven't gotten around to playing with it to verify.
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Changing file system
For actually writing partitions, there is disko (though I have not used it).
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please confirm my impression of why nix is so great
If it's just disk formatting you want to automate, then check out disko.
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disko issues
I guess if all else fails, ignore the instructions? Does the quickstart guide need to be updated?
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