⚠️ The GitHub actions build is currently pinned to an outdated version of nixpkgs because of this issue
This repo contains configuration for creating an NixOS image that runs on a Raspberry Pi.
It contains the following services:
Because Reproducible Builds matter.
And also, SD cards are not the most reliable form of storage, especially when they are operating non-stop. Because of this, I wanted a simple way to build a reproducible OS image that will run on a Raspberry Pi.
The workflow runs on Ubuntu and emulates the ARM platform with QEMU.
When the build finishes, there will be an artifact named sd-image.img.zip.
This archive can be decompressed and the image can flashed on an SD card and used to boot up the OS.
unzip sd-image.img.zip
unzstd nixos-sd-image-21.05pre-git-aarch64-linux.img.zstThe image can be flashed using the Raspberry Pi Imager or a simpler tool such as dd.
The default user/password is nixos/nixos with SSH enabled. Either change the password on initial login, or enable an authorized key and disable the password.