Run NixOS on an Azure Gen 2 VM
- Set your username in the
flake.nixfile - use direnv or run
nix develop - run
az loginand login with your Azure credentials - Create an RSA SSH key pair (id_rsa) - ed25519 keys are not supported by Azure
it can take a while to upload the .vhd (for me it is +/- 50 min),
if the upload time-out; you may want to change the token duration.
also don't look at the azcopy log file, it spams 500 errors but these can be ignored..
./upload-image.sh --resource-group images --image-name nixos-gen2./boot-vm.sh --resource-group vms --image nixos-gen2 --vm-name nixosnix build .#azure-image --impuressh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa <username>@<public_ip>
- username you have set in the
flake.nixfile- public IP will be printed with running the
boot-vm.shscript
❯ neofetch
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▜███▙ ▜███▙▟███▛ OS: NixOS 23.11.20240215.c68a9fc (Tapir) x86_64
▜███▙ ▜██████▛ Host: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine
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