tvl-depot/users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache
Florian Klink cb85e87376 refactor(users/flokli/nixos-tvix-cache): absorb otlpcollector into alloy
We don't need a separate instance of opentelemetry-collector, alloy can
also do this job for us.

Change-Id: I1b671ba57d70b080f7db112e1afcfe2e0cbdd13e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/12829
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Chevalier <zimbatm@zimbatm.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2024-11-23 09:44:36 +00:00
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configuration.nix feat(users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache): init 2024-11-23 09:40:21 +00:00
disko.nix feat(users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache): init 2024-11-23 09:40:21 +00:00
monitoring.nix refactor(users/flokli/nixos-tvix-cache): absorb otlpcollector into alloy 2024-11-23 09:44:36 +00:00
nar-bridge-module.nix feat(users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache): init 2024-11-23 09:40:21 +00:00
nar-bridge.nix feat(users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache): init 2024-11-23 09:40:21 +00:00
OWNERS feat(users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache): init 2024-11-23 09:40:21 +00:00
README.md feat(users/flokli/nixos/nixos-tvix-cache): init 2024-11-23 09:40:21 +00:00

nixos-tvix-cache

This is a fetch-through mirror of cache.nixos.org, hosted by NumTide.

The current machine is a SX65 Hetzner dedicated server with 4x22TB SATA disks, and 2x1TB NVMe disks.

The goals of this machine:

  • Exercise tvix-store and nar-bridge code
  • Collect usage metrics (see Grafana)
  • Identify bottlenecks in the current implementations and fix them
  • Replace cache.nixos.org?

You can configure this as a Nix substitutor on your systems like this:

  nix.settings.substituters = lib.mkForce [
    "https://nixos.tvix.store"
  ];

For store paths it hasn't already seen yet, it'll internally ingest its contents into tvix-castore (deduplicating in doing so).

Requests for NARs will dynamically reassemble the NAR representation on demand.

Metadata and signatures are preserved (which is why you don't need to add additional trusted keys). We need to produce the same data bit by bit, else the signature check in your Nix/Lix client would fail.

Be however aware that there's zero availability guarantees. We will frequently redeploy this box, and it might become unavailable without prior notice.

Tvix currently doesn't have garbage collection. If we run out of disk space, we might either move things to a bigger box or delete everything on it so far.

As it's only a cache, it should however re-ingest things again.