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49 lines
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This script aims to install NixOS on Digital Ocean droplets
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(starting from one of the distros that Digital Ocean supports out of the box)
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These are the only supported Digital Ocean images:
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- Fedora 24 x64
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- Ubuntu 16.04 x64
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- Debian 8.5 x64
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YMMV with any other hoster + image combination.
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nixos-infect is so named because of the high likelihood of rendering a system
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inoperable. Use with caution and preferably only on newly-provisioned
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systems.
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*WARNING NB*: This script wipes out the targeted host's root filesystem when it
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runs to completion. Any errors halt execution. It's advised to run with
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`bash -x` to help debug, as often a failed run leaves the system in an
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inconsistent state, requiring a rebuild (in DigitalOcean panel: Droplet
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Settings -> "Destroy" -> "Rebuild from original").
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*TO USE:*
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- Add any custom config you want (see notes below)
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- Deploy the droplet indicated at the top of the file, enable ipv6, add your ssh key
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- cat customConfig.optional nixos-infect | ssh root@targethost
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Alternatively, use the user data mechamism by supplying the lines between the following
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cat and EOF in the Digital Ocean Web UI (or HTTP API):
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```yaml
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#cloud-config
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runcmd:
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- curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-16.09 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
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```
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Potential tweaks:
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- `/etc/nixos/{,hardware-}configuration.nix`: rudimentary mostly static config
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- `/etc/nixos/networking.nix`, networking settings determined at runtime tweak
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if no ipv6, different number of adapters, etc.
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Motivation for this script: nixos-assimilate should supplant this script
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entirely, if it's ever completed. nixos-in-place was quite broken when I
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tried it, and also took a pretty janky approach that was substantially more
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complex than this (although it supported more platforms): it didn't install
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to root (/nixos instead), left dregs of the old filesystem (almost always
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unnecessary since starting from a fresh deployment), and most importantly,
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simply didn't work for me! (old system was being because grub wasnt properly
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reinstalled)
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