luke is part of a new series of machine names, reserved for servers and based on the Bobiverse series of characters, because I am bad at naming.
First iteration is based on an OpenVZ server because I have it laying around, luke as a name will probably be re-used for other servers in the future.
luke is currently not 100% happy due to a systemd bug impacting resolved.
Utilizing this project to get NixOS on an OpenVZ VPS. I am starting with a Debian 10 OpenVZ instance, not sure if it is OpenVZ 7 or 8, but we are trying. Commands in order on your local machine:
$ git clone https://github.com/zhaofengli/nixos-openvz.git
$ cd nixos-openvz.git
$ vim configuration.nix
Contents of said file:
{
networking.useNetworkd = true;
systemd.network.networks.venet0 = {
name = "venet0";
# Change to your assigned IP
address = [ "10.10.10.123/32" ];
networkConfig = {
DHCP = "no";
DefaultRouteOnDevice = "yes";
ConfigureWithoutCarrier = "yes";
};
};
services.openssh.enable = true;
users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
"ssh-rsa ...."
];
}
Now execute the build, upload the tarball, and use it.
$ nix-build generate-openvz-tarball.nix --arg configuration ./configuration.nix
$ scp result/tarball/nixos-system-x86_64-linux.tar.xz root@<REMOTE>:/root/nixos-system-x86_64-linux.tar.xz
$ ssh root@<REMOTE>
$ tar xpf nixos-system-x86_64-linux.tar.xz -C /
$ reboot -f
Once it reboots you should be in a nixos install.
The OpenVZ instance does not have enough memory to do a nixos-rebuild switch locally, so I am currently using donnager as my build machine and pushing the changes to the server via:
nixos-rebuild switch --target-host root@luke --flake .#luke