| 28 Aug 2023 |
 void | how do I pass -j0 to colmena to disable local building? | 01:36:51 |
| void | * a question: how do I pass -j0 to colmena to disable local building? | 01:36:59 |
| 29 Aug 2023 |
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| 1 Sep 2023 |
 Jane Jasperous | I am trying to use colmena to provision cloud machines using terraform. I make it well right now using nixos-rebuils trough nixos-anywhere terraform modules but I need to deploy ssh keys out of band before nixos-rebuild. Is there a way to use colmena defining deployment options as targetHost from command line or env variables?? | 07:47:57 |
| void | Jane Jasperous: did you look into agenix? | 15:41:47 |
| void | colmena has also an option to deploy keys. | 15:42:15 |
| 4 Sep 2023 |
| Jane Jasperous | sure but targetHost is a moving target, so I need to pass it with modifiers or env variables | 06:51:33 |
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| 6 Sep 2023 |
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| @lytedev:matrix.org | hey, folks - I'm feeling pretty dumb and can't figure out where/how the configuration for the host goes in the colmena flake output - any pointers or docs or examples for my dumb brain? | 00:41:56 |
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| 17 Sep 2023 |
 rendakuenthusiast⚡️ | In reply to @lytedev:matrix.org
hey, folks - I'm feeling pretty dumb and can't figure out where/how the configuration for the host goes in the colmena flake output - any pointers or docs or examples for my dumb brain? here's a somewhat-edited version of my own config: https://privatebin.net/?52786ff541369743#8bjfkQW278J7Gjvsf6ph35xQkxamraf3ZzFFtE4LunGW | 08:04:31 |
| rendakuenthusiast⚡️ | where I have host-a.imports = [ ./local/configuration.nix], that was basically the configuration.nix of that machine before I was using colmena + flakes | 08:05:05 |
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| 18 Sep 2023 |
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| 19 Sep 2023 |
 aanderse | question about the experimental streaming evaluator:
is there a specific reason --evaluator streaming can't be used with colmena eval?
i read the basic description of what nix-eval-jobs is and i don't see any reason why it couldn't be used with the colmena eval command
maybe just hasn't been implemented but it could?
i would appreciate any info on this 🙇♂️
| 12:10:29 |
 raitobezarius | It can definitely be used as far as I imagine it | 13:49:01 |
| raitobezarius | But what is the size of the deployment you are trying to use it for? | 13:49:12 |
| raitobezarius | It won't work very efficiently, will it? | 13:49:20 |
| raitobezarius | Except if your biggest annoyance is evaluating nixpkgs | 13:49:31 |
| aanderse | raitobezarius: when i evaluate some large things (like config.system.build.toplevel) with colmena eval it is very slow
when i run colmena apply (with streaming evaluator) it is very fast
i'd wager if i could run colmena eval with streaming evaluator it would also be fast
| 14:19:32 |
| raitobezarius | interesting | 14:19:47 |
| raitobezarius | oh but yes | 14:19:50 |
| raitobezarius | this is completely the usecase for the streaming evaluator | 14:19:56 |
| raitobezarius | But the streaming evaluator may not know how to parallelize the deployment part | 14:20:20 |
| raitobezarius | Because it's intertwined | 14:20:26 |
