nix-adhoc

Hacks to make nix module system-based services (and beyond) runnable on non-NixOS systems.

• nixos module system-based stuff is in nixos/
• totally standalone stuff is in ./ (start at sproxy.nix)

Warning

Stuff in this repo is experimental. Code that survived natural selection evolves to upcast.

Bootstrapping Nix on 3rd party linux systems.

Now part of upcast.

Pushing the service to a system

% upcast install -t $(awk '/HostName/{print $2}' test/ssh_config) \
    -f hydra \
    -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/sproxy-defnix \
    $(upcast build-remote -t hydra.zalora.com -A sproxy sproxy.nix)
% ssh -F test/ssh_config /nix/var/nix/profiles/sproxy-defnix/bin/supervisord

IPsec service

% env NIX_PATH=$PWD/nix-path nix-build ipsec/
% upcast install -t target -f hydra -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/ipsec /nix/store/xxx-ipsec

Acknowledgements

systemd -> supervisord stub and some ideas have been taken from nix-rehash. Some code was taken from Upcast which in turn inherited it from NixOps.