This repository contains the Nix / NixOS configuration for all of my systems. See nixos-flake if you want to create your own configuration from scratch.
To use this repository as base configuration for your new machine running:
- Install NixOS
- Hetzner dedicated from Linux Rescue system: https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere (see blog post; example PR: srid/nixos-config#35 where I had to configure networking manually)
- Digital Ocean: https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect
- X1 Carbon: https://srid.ca/x1c7-install
- Windows (via WSL): https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
- Clone this repo anywhere
- Edit
flake.nix
to use your system hostname as a key of thenixosConfigurations
set - Edit
users/config.nix
to contain your users - Run
nix run
. That's it. Re-open your terminal.
- Install Nix
- Install nix-darwin
- This will create a
~/.nixpkgs/darwin-configuration.nix
, but we do not need that.
- This will create a
- Clone this repo anywhere
- Edit
flake.nix
to use your system hostname as a key of thedarwinConfigurations
set - Edit
users/config.nix
to contain your users - Run
nix run
.1 That's it. Re-open your terminal.
Start from flake.nix
(see Flakes). flake-parts
is used as the module system.
home
: home-manager config (shared between Linux and macOS)nixos
: nixos modules for Linuxnix-darwin
: nix-darwin modules for macOSusers
: user informationsecrets.yaml
(and.sops.yaml
): sops-nix secretssystems
: top-level configuration.nix('ish) for various systems
- To update NixOS (and other inputs) run
nix flake update
- You may also update a subset of inputs, e.g.
nix flake lock --update-input nixpkgs --update-input darwin --update-input home-manager # Or, `nix run .#update`
- You may also update a subset of inputs, e.g.
- To free up disk space,
sudo nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system --delete-generations +2 sudo nixos-rebuild boot
- To autoformat the project tree using nixpkgs-fmt, run
nix fmt
.
Footnotes
-
You might have to
rm -rf /etc/nix/nix.conf
, so our flake.nix can do its thing. ↩