bootstrapping

[blaggacao]

How to bootstrap a deploy-rs remote host?

We need a blessed path to it.

• My journey: doc: quickstart "ISO. What next?" divnix/digga#167 (stuck with /mnt subdir on the live cd)
• Other approaches: Inoculate host identity on first use divnix/digga#132 (comment) → https://github.com/Xe/nixos-configs/blob/ec73a55b42836ef194a38c8bad5a938e11f3b979/hosts/lufta/bootstrap.nix

[blaggacao]

I see this in the examples: https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs/blob/master/examples/system/bare.nix

@notgne2 Do you think it is worth exploring a more generalized and standard approach or is direction to leave that concern to the users? At any rate, I'll try to adopt the approach in bare.nix downstream and see where it leads me to.

I was wondering if it is desirable to provide a more wired-up solution that builds when doing deploy bootstrap or something similar.

[blaggacao]

Closing as #75 (comment) is a sufficient (potential) solution.

[balsoft]

I see this in the examples: https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs/blob/master/examples/system/bare.nix

Please note that the examples were copied from https://github.com/serokell/deploy/tree/master/examples without modification, so some of it might be strange or even not work.

How to bootstrap a deploy-rs remote host?

We need a blessed path to it.

I'm not sure I understand the question. deploy-rs assumes that a remote host is already running some sort of a NixOS installation. Do you mean we should add a way to deploy to a remote subdirectory, like from a NixOS installation ISO? That would be nice, but it would require quite a lot of changes to the code, and there are a lot of edge cases there to be thought about (e.g. where and how to install the bootloader).

[blaggacao]

I yesterday implemented a couple of things in divnix/devos. They are documented here: https://devos.divnix.com/doc/start/bootstrapping.html

It would be nice if we could keep on spinning the yarn to make the overall bootstrapping experience as versatile as possible.

Do you mean we should add a way to deploy to a remote subdirectory, like from a NixOS installation ISO?

That would actually be nice, indeed. It would smoothen the experience in https://devos.divnix.com/doc/start/bootstrapping.html#install in favor of deploy-rs.

[balsoft]

Ok, would you mind opening an issue about that?