selfprivacy-nixos-infect/README.md
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This script - is a modded version of original [nixos-infect](https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect). It have been revritten to suit needs of SelfPrivacy project. Except transforming your Ubuntu Linux system into NixOS GNU/Linux, it deploys standart services that SelfPrivacy offers to their customers.
## Source Distros
This script has been tested and can install NixOS from the following source distros:
On Digital Ocean:
- Fedora 33 x64
- Ubuntu 20.04 x64
On Hetzner cloud:
- Ubuntu 20.04
On Scaleway cloud:
- Ubuntu 20.04
## Considerations
nixos-infect is so named because of the high likelihood of rendering a system
inoperable. Use with caution and preferably only on newly-provisioned
systems.
*WARNING NB*: This script wipes out the targeted host's root filesystem when it
runs to completion. Any errors halt execution. It's advised to run with
`bash -x` to help debug, as often a failed run leaves the system in an
inconsistent state, requiring a rebuild (in DigitalOcean panel: Droplet
Settings -> "Destroy" -> "Rebuild from original").
## Digital Ocean
*TO USE:*
- Add any custom config you want (see notes below)
- Deploy the droplet indicated at the top of the file, enable ipv6, add your ssh key
- `cat customConfig.optional nixos-infect | ssh root@targethost`
Alternatively, you may utilize Digital Ocean's "user data" mechanism (found in the Web UI or HTTP API), and supply to it the following example yaml stanzas:
```yaml
#cloud-config
runcmd:
- curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | PROVIDER=digitalocean NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-20.03 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
```
Potential tweaks:
- `/etc/nixos/{,hardware-}configuration.nix`: rudimentary mostly static config
- `/etc/nixos/networking.nix`, networking settings determined at runtime tweak
if no ipv6, different number of adapters, etc.
```yaml
#cloud-config
write_files:
- path: /etc/nixos/host.nix
permissions: '0644'
content: |
{pkgs, ...}:
{
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ vim ];
}
runcmd:
- curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | PROVIDER=digitalocean NIXOS_IMPORT=./host.nix NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-20.03 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
```
## Hetzner cloud
Hetzner cloud works out of the box. When creating a server provide the following script as "User data" (this has been tested using Ubuntu 20.04 as a base OS).
```
#!/bin/sh
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-20.03 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
```
## Motivation
Motivation for this script: nixos-assimilate should supplant this script
entirely, if it's ever completed. nixos-in-place was quite broken when I
tried it, and also took a pretty janky approach that was substantially more
complex than this (although it supported more platforms): it didn't install
to root (/nixos instead), left dregs of the old filesystem (almost always
unnecessary since starting from a fresh deployment), and most importantly,
simply didn't work for me! (old system was being because grub wasnt properly
reinstalled)