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• smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought about adding a link, but am a bit hesitant to de-anonymize myself on here 😅

  But it’s basically this:

  • Proxmox is not Nix configured. There’s a project for that, but IMO t’ll take a couple of years to be ready for production.
  • I’ve created a custom nix module that essentially just sets my default values for stuff like bios type, boot order,… And allows to set CPU cores, RAM, IP,…
  • all this does though is just setting the corresponding values from the nixos-generators proxmox output
  • additionally, all the usual stuff is handled (user, known ssh keys, base config of the system)
  • for each VM, I only have a single file containing the VM settings (ID, RAM, cpu, ip,…) and the service config for whatever the VM is for
  • then lastly I have a custom script/shell that essentially just allows to do “nixvm-new <flake output name>” which generates the image, moves it to the nas, and calls on proxmox to import the image, plus some cleanup

  TBH this sounds way more complicated than it is / feels to use 😄

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