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2.4 KiB
Truxnell's homelab
Background
Having used a variety of infracture as code solutions - and having found them lacking in some areas, it is time to give nix a go. Frustrations with other methods tend to be bitrot and config drift - very annoying to want to do a quick disaster recovery and find your have different versions of modules/utilities, breaking changes in code you didnt catch, etc.
Getting started
To Install
# nixos-rebuild switch --flake github:truxnell/nix-config#HOST
Goals
- Learn nix
- Mostly reproduce features from my existing homelab
- Replace existing ubuntu-based 'NAS'
- Expand usage to other shell environments such as WSL, etc
- handle secrets - decide between sweet and simple SOPS or re-use my doppler setup.
TODO
- Github Actions update fly.io instances (Bitwarden)
- Bring over hosts
- DNS01 Raspi4
- DNS02 Raspi4
- NAS
- Latop
- WSL
- JJY emulator Raspi4
- Documentation!
- ssh_config build from computers?
- Modularise host to allow vm builds and hw builds
- Add license
- Add taskfiles
Network map
TBC
Hardware
TBC
Applying configuration changes on a local machine can be done as follows:
cd ~/dotfiles
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .
# This will automatically pick the configuration name based on the hostname
Applying configuration changes to a remote machine can be done as follows:
cd ~/dotfiles
nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#nameOfMachine --target-host machineToSshInto --use-remote-sudo
Hacking at nix files
Eval config to see what keys are being set.
nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.rickenbacker.config.security.sudo.WheelNeedsPassword
nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.rickenbacker.config.mySystem.security.wheelNeedsPassword
Quickly run a flake to see what the next error message is as you hack.
nixos-rebuild dry-run --flake . --fast --impure