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nixos poc

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despiegk commented

have been looking at so many options how we can automate our deployments & dev environments

played with guix, nix, ...

the current conclusion is that while not perfect NIXOS and NIX might be the best option right now, its getting a lot of traction and its very active

This story is to setup a poc and let us see if we can indeed use it and it does what we want

Some of the tools i suggest to use & check

  • nushell (quite incredible, better than bash scripts)
  • vsh (v shell, can be used with our own libraries)
  • nix / nixos

install NIXOS on hetzner

  • create a script in nushell to talk to hetzner api, and start a rescue machine on existing node
  • create simple bash script to download or install nushell into the rescue machine (a one liner to download the script and then execute which results in the tools we need)
  • create a nushell script to erase all partitions (make HD's completely empty)
  • create a nushell script to create our required partitions: ext4+swap to boot (50GB), btrfs partitions after it mounted on /disk1 /disk2 for now (if e.g. 2 SSD's)
  • create a nushell script to

see https://git.ourworld.tf/freeflowuniverse/nu/issues for further instructions and the repo itself.

see https://git.ourworld.tf/freeflowuniverse/nu

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