nixos-in-10-minutes

A simple repo which makes it easy to bring up a NixOS instance in 10 minutes. This is based on nixos-anywhere.

Prerequisites:

docker and docker-compose running on the local machine
a remote linux VM in which the root account can be accessed via ssh

How this works:

bring up the docker container which provides a flake enabled nix environment
create a new ssh key inside the container and put the pubkey on the remote VM in the root account
check the disk configuration
run nixos-anywhere

See this post for more details.

DO THIS

https://github.com/seanrmurphy/nixos-in-10-minutes.git cd nixos-in-10-minutes/docker docker compose run --rm nixos-anywhere

mkdir -p /root/.config/nix echo experimental-features = nix-command flakes > /root/.config/nix/nix.conf

echo filter-syscalls = false >> /root/.config/nix/nix.conf # required on aarch64 building x86_64 binaries cat /root/.config/nix/nix.conf nix shell nixpkgs#jq jq nix shell nixpkgs#vim

ssh-keygen

mkdir -p /root/.ssh touch /root/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub touch /root/.ssh/id_ed25519

cat /root/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIASmQy+YhNo6spFGwNrUjtBHgQBIsCj2GjBQ8wM1KPKc

ssh 192.168.1.17

lsblk

/dev/sda

In the above, the device is called vda; it is often sda depending on where your VM lives — just make sure to have consistency between the name of the block device as seen from the VM and as specified in the nixos-anywhere/disk-config.nix file (on the line device = lib.mkDefault “/dev/sda”).Note that you may need to run a shell with an editor when making changes inside the container — use

nix shell nixpkgs#vim

exit

pwd cd cd /root

git clone https://github.com/seanrmurphy/nixos-in-10-minutes.git

cd nixos-in-10-minutes/nixos-anywhere/ nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --flake .#nixos-anywhere-vm root@192.168.1.17

ssh 192.168.1.17

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nixos-in-10-minutes