tvl-depot/ops/terraform/deploy-nixos
Florian Klink a9db1455f5 refactor(ops/terraform/deploy-nixos): downcase bash variables
These are not environment variables, so let's shout less.

Change-Id: I3132844937ee78b7230a46afc0240e0225a99f3e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/11140
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2024-03-14 06:03:48 +00:00
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main.tf chore(ops/terraform): add license information 2023-12-05 12:31:25 +00:00
nixos-copy.sh chore(ops/terraform): add license information 2023-12-05 12:31:25 +00:00
nixos-eval.sh refactor(ops/terraform/deploy-nixos): downcase bash variables 2024-03-14 06:03:48 +00:00
README.md chore(ops/terraform): add license information 2023-12-05 12:31:25 +00:00

deploy-nixos

This is a Terraform module to deploy a NixOS system closure to a remote machine.

The system closure must be accessible by Nix-importing the repository root and building a specific attribute (e.g. nix-build -A ops.machines.machine-name).

The target machine must be accessible normally over SSH, and an SSH key must be used for access.

Notably this module separates the evaluation of the system closure from building and deploying it, and uses the closure's derivation hash to determine whether a deploy is necessary.

Usage example:

module "deploy_somehost" {
  source              = "git::https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:/ops/terraform/deploy-nixos.git"
  attrpath            = "ops.nixos.somehost"
  target_host         = "somehost.tvl.su"
  target_user         = "someone"
  target_user_ssh_key = tls_private_key.somehost.private_key_pem
}

Future work

Several things can be improved about this module, for example:

  • The repository root (relative to which the attribute path is evaluated) could be made configurable.

  • The remote system closure could be discovered to restore remote system state after manual deploys on the target (i.e. "stomping" of changes).

More ideas and contributions are, of course, welcome.

Acknowledgements

Development of this module was sponsored by Resoptima.