| 5 Apr 2024 |
 Janik (they/them) | In reply to @polygon:catgirl.cloud
no i don't know if i am totally hanging but i'm thinking more of a scenario where you have a server that's running some OS, let's say Debian, and you just go and deploy a nixos config onto it and it results in a NixOs system the most common one is nixos-anywhere I believe, but there is also some others like nixos-infect. There is also a issue in the colmena repo about this feature https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/issues/148 | 00:20:21 |
 @networkexception:chat.upi.li | In reply to @me:indeednotjames.com
no no, there are various ways/projects that achieve that out of scope for this room perhaps, in general there are many ways with varying levels of customizability / if and how you keep the previous installation and their files in tact | 00:36:27 |
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 @julian:nekover.se | In reply to @julian:nekover.se
Hi o/
Recently I'm getting the following error whenever trying to run colmena build:
error: cannot update unlocked flake input 'hive' in pure mode
Figured out my problem is very likely https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena/issues/202 btw :S | 18:42:03 |
| 8 Apr 2024 |
 pgibson | 
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| pgibson | I've just had another failed deploy where I lost network connectivity to my Digital Ocean droplet after "pushed system closure" and while "stopping the following units: podman-<redacted>.service, podman-<another redacted>.service". This time I had created an admin user so I can log in via the support console. It looks like the default route is incorrect.
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| pgibson | The public interface has an IP address and is "UP", however there's no entry in the routing table for it and the default route is via interface veth0 which seems wrong | 01:12:51 |
| pgibson | So it sounds like sometimes restarting the podman services is breaking the routing table - NixOS issue? | 01:14:01 |
| pgibson | Last time a reboot fixed the connectivity issue, but it would be good to find out why it's breaking so for the moment I haven't rebooted | 01:15:57 |
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| 11 Apr 2024 |
 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:cherrykitten.dev | 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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