| 4 Jan 2022 |
 phaer | colemickens 🏳️🌈: Ah, forgot the link which i just made public https://github.com/dep-sys/nixos-zfs-installer | 17:12:22 |
| phaer | I think it should in theory be doable to maintain a generic flake which provides nix functions and nixosModules to bundle parameterized install scripts with a somewhat minimal kernel configuration + initrd for kexec, netbooting and vms all together. Making them unattended and seed thinks such as the host name, network config, etc to the installer in a generic way seems challenging to me. Same as flexible partitioning. e.g. EFI & zfs mirroing support would be awesome | 17:28:23 |
 colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I think maybe this is OT and maybe I should throw up a repo even just so we can spitball ideas, but I am thinking along the same lines. In many cases, disk layout will be known ahead of time and I'm thinking a heuristic for "matching" to a selected disk layout to a booted machine, it notices the disks are not zpool members and kicks in. | 18:56:02 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | I am also thinking this initrd could be smart enough to consume VM userdata via cloud api, libvirtd, etc for last mile provisioning. | 18:56:42 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | With sops-nix having support for cloud KVM, and a scheme I've found for supporting multiple user zfs keys... I think some somewhat interesting things could be built that would be highly appealing to certain types of orgs. | 18:57:32 |
| colemickens 🏳️🌈 | phaer: ^^ | 18:57:50 |
 @janne.hess:helsinki-systems.de | In reply to @colemickens:matrix.org
With sops-nix having support for cloud KVM, and a scheme I've found for supporting multiple user zfs keys... I think some somewhat interesting things could be built that would be highly appealing to certain types of orgs. We don't have stage-1 support in sops-nix yet though. But it's one of my next projects apart from the stc stuff | 19:13:26 |
| 5 Jan 2022 |
| phaer | In reply to @colemickens:matrix.org
I think maybe this is OT and maybe I should throw up a repo even just so we can spitball ideas, but I am thinking along the same lines. In many cases, disk layout will be known ahead of time and I'm thinking a heuristic for "matching" to a selected disk layout to a booted machine, it notices the disks are not zpool members and kicks in. A place to collect ideas would be most welcome, I learned a lot since and would have a few ideas to improve my current playground. Also quite interested in the vm data via cloud api thing! :) | 01:01:25 |
