| 3 Jun 2022 |
|  tpw_rules joined the room. | 03:50:51 |
| tpw_rules | hi, i was wondering if there were public examples of real colmena deployments anyone wanted to share. how do you handle the stuff that would ordinarily go in hardware-configuration.nix, i.e. usually partitioning? | 03:51:28 |
| tpw_rules | i've been doing research in preparation to write my own deployment tool which is designed for offline hosts | 03:52:16 |
 Buckley | i put my partitions right in the normal configuration | 03:52:39 |
| tpw_rules | do you specify them by ID still? | 03:52:50 |
| tpw_rules | or just sda1 etc? | 03:52:55 |
| Buckley | i generally use UUIDs unless i am reasonably sure the machine will only ever have one disk attached to it. eg, VMs | 03:53:26 |
| tpw_rules | what do you do if you need to reformat the machine? just update the config's uuids? | 03:53:43 |
| Buckley | yep | 03:53:51 |
| tpw_rules | simple enough | 03:53:58 |
| Buckley | if you dont like either one of those, partlabels also exist | 03:54:02 |
| tpw_rules | that is true | 03:54:27 |
| Buckley | also, /dev/disk/by-id/ stays consistent across reinstalls | 03:54:46 |
| tpw_rules | also, it looks like colmena just wraps nix command line tools, there's no API or database munging | 03:55:01 |
| Buckley | no database, right | 03:55:41 |
| Buckley | and yeah it just sort of sits on top of the existing nix toolset | 03:56:27 |
| tpw_rules | what does colmena mean by "hive"? | 03:56:59 |
| Buckley | a hive is a large config containing all your server configs | 03:57:24 |
| Buckley | it can just be a single file that imports a bunch of individual server configs if that's what you like | 03:57:46 |
| Buckley | i actually have a flake with my hosts configured in the standard flakes way, and then a couple very small shims that connect that to colmena | 03:58:24 |
| tpw_rules | ahh i see | 03:58:30 |
| tpw_rules | it looks like colmena has a custom flakes output name, is that kosher-ish? | 03:58:42 |
| Buckley | like how nix flake check says that colmena is an unknown output? | 03:59:51 |
| tpw_rules | i guess | 04:00:25 |
| Buckley | you can have non-standard flake outputs, and that's fine, as long as they don't collide with any official output names in the future | 04:01:19 |
| Buckley | i doubt the official spec will ever define a colmena output, so its good by me | 04:01:50 |
| Buckley | * i doubt the official flake spec will ever define a colmena output, so its good by me | 04:01:59 |
| Buckley | the nixpkgs repo actually has a lib output which is not an official nix standard | 04:02:26 |
| tpw_rules | ah ok | 04:05:43 |
| tpw_rules | is it possible to separate a nixos machine's hostname from the thing you use in nixosConfigurations and the name of the store path? | 04:05:53 |
