@ocramius @nyunyu Feel free to disregard but you don't have to do full #NixOps to provision remotely. You can just do:
nixos-rebuild --target-host root@host switch
That said - it won't mix very well with a gui running on destination machine. In my setup the destination nodes don't even have /etc/nixos for example, only the node deploying them has the repo/config.
Well, since @nyunyu's PC now runs #Nixos + flakes, it is time for me to learn #NixOps in practice, so I can provision her machine from remote.
The declarative approach is cool for me, not for her, and really needs a small GUI that does:
* edit a list of wished system / user programs
* do a `rebuild test`
* do a `commit` + push
* do a `rebuild switch`
* sometimes with `nix flake update`
Hi everyone,It's been a while since our last update, and I wanted to share what has been going on with NixOps and our future plans!Progress Over the Last Two Years · Since taking over as the maintainer of NixOps, my focus has been primarily...
Holy fuck, a huge journey just ended today:
My final, my largest, most active personal repo was finally converted to flakes & #colmena for managing #nixOS hosts.
My Git oracles informed me that I first started trying to convert this repo on the 8th April 2021 😳
It had become such a massive chore to have one repo still stuck in the #nixops swamp, that I finally set aside a day on the weekend and JFDI.
Being a personal repo, previous attempts had suffered from "bah, I don't have time for this"
@nobodyinperson how are you managing multiple #NixOS #RapberryPi configurations?
I only have a new #FrameWork and legacy #System76, laptops, and my configurations are already divergent. I plan to add my Pi's into the mix, but need a better strategy.
#GitOps doesn't seem to cut it, and, though I know it would work, think I should go for something more idiomatic than #Ansible templates. I've seen some very interesting #NixOps setups, but https://github.com/NixOS/nixops?tab=readme-ov-file#nixops says it's in maintenance mode!?!
It'll be a while before it's usable, but NixOps4 did its first thing!
So for some reason my #nixops-deployed VPS on Gandi Cloud VPS cannot boot after any kind of shutdown/restart. Judging from the VNC, it hangs on mounting the virtual disk.
hamster.dance will be down again until I either fix that somehow or give up and try a different hosting service
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