 | Colmena | 253 Members |
| A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool - https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena | 87 Servers |
| Colmena | 253 Members |
| A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool - https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena | 87 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
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| 8 Jan 2022 | ||
 Zhaofeng Li | Good idea! We can add aliases, and the whole config will be generated as a string by eval.nix | 02:45:12 |
 @github:maunium.net | [zhaofengli/colmena] Repo forked into buckley310/colmena | 16:36:39 |
| 9 Jan 2022 | ||
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| n0emis | Hey there, is there currently an option to pass --max-jobs 0 to the nix build command or to achive something similar (e.g. don't build anything on the machine running colmena, only on the remote builders)? | 18:52:40 |
| Zhaofeng Li | No, there isn't one at the moment, and a --max-jobs parameter that gets passed to all Nix commands doesn't fit well with Colmena's own job abstraction (it launches one nix-build for each node). | 18:59:26 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Though if you don't rely on the "distributed" part of the native distributed build feature in Nix, there is a way for Colmena to initiate builds on the target nodes themselves (deployment.buildOnTarget, only available on the unstable branch at the moment) | 19:01:42 |
| 13 Jan 2022 | ||
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| 14 Jan 2022 | ||
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| putchar | hello Zhaofeng Li thank you for developing your software. I got a question but i didnt really look into all of the feature already available is colmena able to do a multi profile deployment ? much like what deploy-rs do ? | 10:10:32 |
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| Zhaofeng Li | In reply to @putch4r:matrix.orgHi, Colmena follows the semantics of NixOps and morph so it cannot do multi-profile deployment at the moment. | 18:27:24 |
 Naota joined the room. | 22:18:23 | |
| Naota | In reply to @buckley310:matrix.orgI came here looking for advice on achieving exactly this, so thanks! | 22:20:45 |
 Buckley | FWIW, I have not fully looked into the performance implications of doing it this way. Some quick testing indicated that there may be a slight penalty for doing it that way, since its sort of building the systems twice. | 22:29:08 |
| Buckley | my (non-scientific) test indicated that doing it this way takes 36 seconds to build, whereas doing it the "normal' colmena way takes 32 seconds | 22:30:09 |
| Buckley | small enough that I called it "good enough" and didnt really test further | 22:30:42 |
| Zhaofeng Li | The main problem with this is that you cannot take advantage of the name and nodes module arguments without breaking nixosConfigurations | 22:31:09 |
| Buckley | there is that. although you can overlay nixosConfigurations and then you can call pkgs.nixosConfigurations.<node>.config.whatever | 22:32:46 |
| Buckley | * there is that. although you can overlay nixosConfigurations and then you can call pkgs.nixosConfigurations.<node>.config.whatever from machine configs | 22:33:00 |
| Buckley | I'm just too used to being able to poke around my configs with a repl to give it up :) | 22:34:32 |
| Naota | In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.liMy setup is relatively simple so this is not an issue for me. | 22:34:49 |
| Naota | I am trying out flake-utils-plus, but was struggling to workout how to integrate that with Colmena. | 22:39:51 |
| Naota | I was initially using deploy-rs, in which case it's dead simple. But it doesn't support buildOnTarget like Colmena. | 22:42:00 |
| Buckley | What we’re you trying to actually do with utils? | 23:05:20 |
| 15 Jan 2022 | ||
| Naota | I'm trying out using mkFlake from FUP to define my set of hosts. I'm taking advantage of hostDefaults, sharedOverlays in generating my system configurations. So I was trying to work out a clean way to use the output of mkFlake in colmena (or nixops or morph). | 00:05:45 |
 angerman | After yet another nixops failure, I've tried colmena, but I'm stuck due to nix being killed? how do I debug what's going on here | 09:29:33 |
| angerman | I'm trying to build for aarch64-linux, on macOS. I do have a aarch64-linux builder in my machines file. | 09:32:30 |
 Mick joined the room. | 10:27:46 | |
| Zhaofeng Li | In reply to @angerman:matrix.orgInteresting, 11 is a segfault. What Nix version are you running? | 12:39:34 |
| angerman | I’ll check in a bit. | 12:46:36 |