| 25 Mar 2024 |
 @belak:matrix.org | * I'm looking at the multi-architecture-deployments page and I feel like I must be missing something. In this instance, when you set up colmena.meta.nixpkgs, do you specify your "default" architecture, and use the nixos configuration's nixpkgs.system to override when you're not on the default? | 22:41:20 |
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| @belak:matrix.org | Also, is there anything like deploy-rs's method of automatically rolling back if it determines something is broken? | 22:42:01 |
| 26 Mar 2024 |
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 Bruno Adele | 
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| Bruno Adele | Hi, i try to test the colmena project, i try test this tutorial => https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena?tab=readme-ov-file#tutorial-with-flakes but i receive the error message.
Are we in agreement that normally both hosts are supposed to run as guests (containers)? | 07:25:19 |
 craige | It looks to me like your deployment host cannot resolve the hostnames / IPs you've used.
I'd be checking simple things like "can I ping the hosts using the hostnames I've configured" | 08:35:13 |
| Bruno Adele | 
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| Bruno Adele | Thank you craige for your response. Yes, I had understood that was the issue, but the example suggests that we do a 'colmena build' and a 'colmena apply' and we have two instances available in containers (although I'm not sure if they are Docker containers, LXD containers, or something else). | 11:42:10 |
 Sammy (It/Its) | colmena doesn't create the intances for you, it only connects to preexisting machines | 12:48:10 |
| 27 Mar 2024 |
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| 28 Mar 2024 |
| @belak:matrix.org | Is there a good way to convert from a flake's nixosConfigurations output to a colemena node? At the moment, I'm using this, but it seems fairly hacky:
mkColmenaNode = node: {
deployment = {
targetHost = "${node}.elwert.dev";
targetUser = "root";
};
nixpkgs.system = self.nixosConfigurations.${node}.config.nixpkgs.system;
imports = self.nixosConfigurations.${node}._module.args.modules;
};
In particular the self.nixosConfigurations.${node}._module.args.modules line
| 05:17:27 |
| Sammy (It/Its) | In reply to @belak:matrix.org
Is there a good way to convert from a flake's nixosConfigurations output to a colemena node? At the moment, I'm using this, but it seems fairly hacky:
mkColmenaNode = node: {
deployment = {
targetHost = "${node}.elwert.dev";
targetUser = "root";
};
nixpkgs.system = self.nixosConfigurations.${node}.config.nixpkgs.system;
imports = self.nixosConfigurations.${node}._module.args.modules;
};
In particular the self.nixosConfigurations.${node}._module.args.modules line
there were some examples of how to do that here a few days ago, if you've been in this chat longer you should be able to scroll up to see it | 10:08:25 |
| Sammy (It/Its) | In reply to @me:indeednotjames.com
you can also specify colmena as a flake input and pass your colmenaHive attrset to nixosConfiguration, one sec see here and the following mesaages after | 10:09:10 |
| @belak:matrix.org | In reply to @sammy:cherrykitten.dev
see here and the following mesaages after Oh interesting. I didn’t know colmenaHive was a thing. | 14:17:43 |
| @belak:matrix.org | I assumed that was somehow related to hive.nix which people sometimes reference and seems to be completely undocumented | 14:20:24 |
| @belak:matrix.org | * I assumed that was somehow related to hive.nix which people sometimes reference and (also) seems to be completely undocumented | 14:22:53 |
| Sammy (It/Its) | yep, colmena documentation is really lacking in some places currently :/
| 16:55:04 |
