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 sntx | I just want to check with you, in case I misunderstood colmena.
Colmena is a tool to manage existing NixOS configurations. However it cannot create new NixOS installations.
Is that correct? | 11:44:28 |
 Sammy (It/Its) | In reply to @sntx:matrix.org
I just want to check with you, in case I misunderstood colmena.
Colmena is a tool to manage existing NixOS configurations. However it cannot create new NixOS installations.
Is that correct? correct. | 18:04:23 |
 dmoonfire | I use OpenTofu to make new instances, then set them up in Colmena to manage them. | 18:36:43 |
| dmoonfire | Mostly by having OpenTofu (Terraform) emit variables with IP addresses, init script with infect, and providing my ssh key. The emitted variables are turned into a .nix file which I import into my colmena setup to hook things up. | 19:39:58 |
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| @samtan106:matrix.org | Hey there. I am trying to do a multi arch deployment using colmena since my machine is x86 but the PI that I'm deploying to is aarch64-linux. In the guide for this (https://colmena.cli.rs/0.3/examples/multi-arch.html), it suggests to do boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = [ "aarch64-linux" ]; locally. However, my local machine is not a NixOS machine, it's using arch linux. Is there a way for me to configure my machine locally for cross compilation anyway? | 18:55:29 |
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| mall0c | In reply to @sntx:matrix.org
I just want to check with you, in case I misunderstood colmena.
Colmena is a tool to manage existing NixOS configurations. However it cannot create new NixOS installations.
Is that correct? has anybody found a way to do what sntx is doing? I found something called "nixos-anywhere" but seems host or control machine also needs to be nixOS | 00:52:06 |
 @4censord:unfug.hs-furtwangen.de | The least amount of (getting started) effort is just installing nixos by hand, and only then managing it with colmena.
To automate creation of new nixos hosts, either use some kind of template and something like OpenTofu (terraform), or something like nixos-infect with generic linux templates from your hosting provider
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 tim | In reply to @mall0c:matrix.org
has anybody found a way to do what sntx is doing? I found something called "nixos-anywhere" but seems host or control machine also needs to be nixOS Nixos anywhere just requires ssh access and kexec on the to be provisioned host, but depending on where you want to create your machines it is just not worth the effort to do that declaratively | 07:13:49 |
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| sylex-matrix | Yo! | 22:08:21 |
| sylex-matrix | Would someone around here lend me a hand with a coulpe of things related to colmena and nix? 😁 | 22:14:17 |
