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smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Funny - same thing here. Got 3 proxmox hosts running, all virtual machines are NixOS though.

I’d love to go full Nix, but between my GF and I, we kinda split the responsibilities: hardware is hers, applications are mine. And there’s not a chance she’ll give up her Proxmox hosts 😄

Got it automated to a single “provision” command though that will spin up any of my nix VMS unanttended, so I’m happy with that.

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mirdaki@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Oh that provision command sounds interesting! Did it take a bit of tinkering to get right?

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- smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, but no dark magic involved.
  
  build image
  
  copy to proxmox ISO store
  
  import, resize disk
  
  start, wait to come online
  
  read ssh pubkey, save it
  
  rekey secrets
  
  rebuild VM
  
  The only “magic” parts are two nix modules for handling proper networking and hardware setup, and exposing required attributes to the script.
  
  Works really well, zero manual config (beyond the services you want to run…) required on nix or proxmox side.
  
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  - mirdaki@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Nice! No dark magic being involved is always a good thing haha
    
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    smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Btw, nice read OP. Always great to see more Nix “in the wild”.
    
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