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I am currently managing three NixOS machines - one physical server, one virtual server running on a Proxmox instance, one laptop.

I have all three machines configuration stored in version control, so any changes that I make are conveniently tracked and it's awesome and all that.

My question is what is the recommended way for setting up NixOS on this set of machines initially?

What I am currently doing is basically following the NixOS installation instructions:

• boot NixOS ISO


• partition the disk


• create a minimal configuration.nix including just partitioning, networking and my SSH key setup


• nixos-install


• copy over the corresponding configuration.nix file


• nixos-rebuild switch

This process seems very tedious and anti-NixOS. I can't help thinking that there must a way to automate this process.

A major pain point for me is that during the installation I only have console access (i.e. no SSH). To obtain SSH access I need to either set a root password and switch the configuration to one allowing SSH password login or somehow copy my public key over. The only option for copying I could think of (short of manually typing it in) is using xdotool to type it to the console for me (which has its own limitations).

I thought of deploying the server boxes with NixOps, but it doesn't seem to support neither physical servers (apart from Hetzner, which is not my case), nor Proxmox VMs.

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I am currently managing three NixOS machines - one physical server, one virtual server running on a Proxmox instance, one laptop.

I have all three machines configuration stored in version control, so any changes that I make are conveniently tracked and it's awesome and all that.

My question is what is the recommended way for setting up NixOS on this set of machines initially?

What I am currently doing is basically following the NixOS installation instructions:

• boot NixOS ISO


• partition the disk


• create a minimal configuration.nix including just partitioning, networking and my SSH key setup


• nixos-install


• copy over the corresponding configuration.nix file


• nixos-rebuild switch

This process seems very tedious and anti-NixOS. I can't help thinking that there must a way to automate this process.

A major pain point for me is that during the installation I only have console access (i.e. no SSH). To obtain SSH access I need to either set a root password and switch the configuration to one allowing SSH password login or somehow copy my public key over. The only option for copying I could think of (short of manually typing it in) is using xdotool to type it to the console for me (which has its own limitations).

I thought of deploying the server boxes with NixOps, but it doesn't seem to support neither physical servers (apart from Hetzner, which is not my case), nor Proxmox VMs.

nixos

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asked 2 hours ago

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I am currently managing three NixOS machines - one physical server, one virtual server running on a Proxmox instance, one laptop.

I have all three machines configuration stored in version control, so any changes that I make are conveniently tracked and it's awesome and all that.

My question is what is the recommended way for setting up NixOS on this set of machines initially?

What I am currently doing is basically following the NixOS installation instructions:

• boot NixOS ISO


• partition the disk


• create a minimal configuration.nix including just partitioning, networking and my SSH key setup


• nixos-install


• copy over the corresponding configuration.nix file


• nixos-rebuild switch

This process seems very tedious and anti-NixOS. I can't help thinking that there must a way to automate this process.

A major pain point for me is that during the installation I only have console access (i.e. no SSH). To obtain SSH access I need to either set a root password and switch the configuration to one allowing SSH password login or somehow copy my public key over. The only option for copying I could think of (short of manually typing it in) is using xdotool to type it to the console for me (which has its own limitations).

I thought of deploying the server boxes with NixOps, but it doesn't seem to support neither physical servers (apart from Hetzner, which is not my case), nor Proxmox VMs.

nixos

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