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| Miles Dyson | Hey there, I am a NixOS noob.
NisOS has been installed for a few weeks and we are getting to know each other.
What are different methods for organizing the config files?
I have opted to create the sub directory '/etc/nixos/import'.
Within './import' there are additional directories to organize the config files.
Is this a common practice, are there any standards?
There I created additional sub directories for different configuration types. | 23:14:03 |
 raitobezarius | there's no standards, but plenty of repositories online you can easily find on github which can give you opinions on that | 23:14:39 |
| Miles Dyson | The directory structure I have set up looks like this:
`[/etc]$ tree -L 3 -d ./nixos
./nixos
└── import
├── base
├── development
│ ├── editor
│ ├── revision
│ ├── shell
│ └── terminal
├── display
├── engineering
├── game
├── management
├── media
│ ├── audio
│ ├── graphics
│ ├── image
│ ├── players-library-downloaders
│ └── video
├── network
│ ├── communications
│ ├── connections
│ ├── locale
│ ├── server
│ ├── tools
│ └── wireless
├── office
├── projects
│ └── intelligence
└── utilites-system
29 directories`
Does it seem reasonable? | 23:15:38 |
 @janik0:matrix.org | If you want to look for examples I can highly recommend https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Anix&type=code and then putting in the service, it's quite nice to find examples. | 23:16:03 |
| Miles Dyson | Am I going overboard, is there a simpler management arrangement? | 23:16:14 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | * If you want to look for examples I can highly recommend https://github.com/search?q=lang%3Anix&type=code and then putting in the service, it's quite nice for finding examples. | 23:16:20 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
The directory structure I have set up looks like this:
`[/etc]$ tree -L 3 -d ./nixos
./nixos
└── import
├── base
├── development
│ ├── editor
│ ├── revision
│ ├── shell
│ └── terminal
├── display
├── engineering
├── game
├── management
├── media
│ ├── audio
│ ├── graphics
│ ├── image
│ ├── players-library-downloaders
│ └── video
├── network
│ ├── communications
│ ├── connections
│ ├── locale
│ ├── server
│ ├── tools
│ └── wireless
├── office
├── projects
│ └── intelligence
└── utilites-system
29 directories`
Does it seem reasonable? probably overboard for a newcomer to nixos | 23:16:47 |
| Miles Dyson | I also want to figure out how to automate backup of my configuration. | 23:16:51 |
| raitobezarius | automating backup of your configuration is just taking configuration of text files | 23:17:05 |
| raitobezarius | git, borgbackup, you name it | 23:17:09 |
| raitobezarius | throw a systemd timer or whatever | 23:17:15 |
| Miles Dyson | In a server config file I have account credentials, how do I exclude it from backups? | 23:19:00 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @raitobezarius:matrix.org
probably overboard for a newcomer to nixos I am experimenting. | 23:19:52 |
| Miles Dyson | How can I add a mechanism that will backup the directories whenever I do sudo nixos-rebuild switch? | 23:20:53 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @raitobezarius:matrix.org
probably overboard for a newcomer to nixos What is the disadvantage of having config spread across multiple include files and directories? | 23:21:52 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
In a server config file I have account credentials, how do I exclude it from backups? don't put them in to your config as plain text, rather use something like https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix/ | 23:27:17 |
| raitobezarius | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
What is the disadvantage of having config spread across multiple include files and directories? too many files just make it tedious | 23:27:38 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | everything in your nixos config is world-readable on a host. | 23:27:38 |
| @janik0:matrix.org | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
How can I add a mechanism that will backup the directories whenever I do sudo nixos-rebuild switch? just overwrite nixos-rebuild with a wrapper script in your path or have your own deployment wrapper (can be as simple as a bash script) | 23:28:41 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @raitobezarius:matrix.org
too many files just make it tedious What is a method to make it less tedious? | 23:30:00 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @janik0:matrix.org
just overwrite nixos-rebuild with a wrapper script in your path or have your own deployment wrapper (can be as simple as a bash script) Thanks! | 23:30:15 |
 @adam:robins.wtf | Make a systemd oneshot without wantedby, and start it on each nixos-rebuild | 23:30:17 |
| @adam:robins.wtf | Then you can also schedule it with a timer :) | 23:30:41 |
