Initial setup (old)

nixos-generate-config

Reading list

• https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
• https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html
• https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/trivial-builders/
• https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix-writers

TODOs:

• Split stuff into multiple files
• Make a flake
• merge hosted docs into a single subdomain
• pre-commit hook with 'nix eval ...outPath'
• Setup some remote-development and deploy flow
• users/pbsds: Support multiple profiles, like headless, nixpkgs-dev, various desktops, hpc, pvv, etc
• nixos-generate-config instructions for new hosts
• zfs, declarative pools?
• secrets - nix-sops ?
  • flexget
  • transmission
  • domeneshop
• hydra
• self-hosted binary cache (single-machine) (nix-serve, carinae, harmonia, eris or attic)
  • https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-harmonia-a-nix-binary-cache-written-in-rust/19855
  • https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-attic-a-self-hostable-nix-binary-cache-server/24343/1
• profiles/web: make ACME/nginx helper a function
  • Support multiple tlds
  • Support multiple acme accounts
  • Support a per-account provider?
  • Support DNS auth
  • Setup aliases instead of a per-vhost cert?
    • Preferably setup a wildchar cert per host

Cheatsheet

How to evaluate nixos flake/configuration.nix, checking if the drv hash is equal

nix eval .#nixosConfigurations.noximilien.config.system.build.toplevel.outPath
# or
nix-instantiate '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A system -I nixos-config=./configuration.nix