The netboot build composed ./modules/installer/iso.nix (which pulls in
nixpkgs' installation-cd-minimal.nix) together with nixpkgs'
netboot-minimal.nix. Both installation-cd-base.nix and netboot.nix set
fileSystems."/" via the identical lib.mkImageMediaOverride (mkOverride
60) priority - genuinely conflicting root-filesystem strategies
(ISO-by-label vs. netboot-tmpfs) at the same priority, and the ISO one
was winning. Every netboot boot hung waiting for a device that can
never exist outside a real CD/USB:
A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-label/nixos-minimal-...
Reproduced live: deployed a scratch lxc-pxe-boot on pve-test, pulled its
built kernel/initrd, and booted them directly with QEMU to confirm the
hang and capture full console output. netboot-minimal.nix's own chain
(netboot-base.nix) already imports profiles/installation-device.nix
independently, so common.nix's initialHashedPassword override still
applies correctly with iso.nix removed from this composition. Rebuilt
and re-booted the same way after the fix - full boot to a working shell
with SSH up, no hang.
New tor-relay build type (currently lxc-only) running a plain Tor
middle relay via modules/tor/enable-relay.nix, plus nyx for
interactive monitoring over the relay's control socket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New build type dedicated to Tailscale exit-node capability, wired up for
linode/proxmox/lxc like every other build type (the lxc variant is the one
actually intended for deployment). Kept separate from the "server" host
rather than bundling exit-node capability onto it.
Trimmed modules/tailscale/exit-node.nix down to pure exit-node behavior:
dropped the old --advertise-routes=${vars.lanCidr} bundling (meaningless
for a Linode-hosted VPS with no path to the LAN), and switched
extraUpFlags -> extraSetFlags. Confirmed against nixpkgs' tailscale.nix
that extraUpFlags is only applied by tailscaled-autoconnect, which itself
only runs when services.tailscale.authKeyFile is set -- nothing in this
repo sets one, so the old flags would never have actually been applied.
extraSetFlags runs unconditionally via tailscaled-set on every boot, so
--advertise-exit-node self-reapplies once the operator has done the
one-time manual `tailscale up` auth.
Verified: all three new targets eval cleanly, nixpkgs-fmt/statix clean,
and a dry-run build of lxc-tailscale-exit-node's tarball resolves its full
closure including tailscaled-set.service.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
The real root cause behind the original nix-cache 502, traced all the way
through: modules/installer/host-keys.nix (which NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR=...
--impure actually wires up) is only ever imported by the installer's own
modules/installer/common.nix -- modules/platforms/lxc.nix, which every
real lxc-* host build actually uses, never imported anything like it.
docs/auto-installer.md previously claimed NIXOS_HOST_KEYS_DIR bakes a key
into lxc-* tarballs "the same way it does for the ISO/PXE installer
images" -- that was never actually true; I wrote it without verifying the
mechanism existed for lxc.nix specifically.
In practice this meant every lxc-* container booted with a freshly
self-generated SSH host key that could never match whatever .sops.yaml
actually trusts for that target, so *every* secret -- not just
cache-priv-key -- silently failed to decrypt. No error surfaces in the
boot log for this: the activation step that installs secrets only runs
on a genuinely fresh first activation and silently no-ops once
/run/current-system already exists, so by the time anyone looks the
window has closed. Found by manually invoking sops-install-secrets
directly: "Error getting data key: 0 successful groups required, got 0".
Fixed by giving modules/platforms/lxc.nix the same key-baking mechanism
the installer has, but keyed to its own exact flake target and placing
the key directly at /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key (no copy step to stage
for, unlike the installer's /etc/host-keys/ staging area -- an lxc-*
tarball has no install step). The target name comes in via
specialArgs.flakeTarget (new, set by flake.nix's mkTarget) rather than
being read back from config.environment.etc."flake-target" -- reading
that back from within a module that also contributes to
environment.etc is circular (confirmed: "infinite recursion
encountered").
Verified live end-to-end against the real test container (lxc-nix-cache,
VMID 100 on pve.sweet.home): destroyed it, rebuilt the tarball fresh with
the fix, recreated it, and confirmed /run/secrets/ now has all three
secrets this host needs (beszel-token, cache-priv-key, nix-github-token),
nix-serve is active (running), and curl http://localhost/nix-cache-info
succeeds both directly and through nginx.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
Both existed only so the installer could boot as an LXC container and
nixos-install some other host from within it, but lxc-* targets are
already excluded from the install menu (nixos-install can't touch its
own running root filesystem), and now have their own direct tarball
path anyway. That left the installer's own LXC form with no real use
case, and packages.all with only two members worth bundling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
Adds debian@surface's existing SSH key (already used as its admin
key elsewhere in this repo) to vars.remoteBuilderAuthorizedKeys so
nix-cache will accept it as a distributed-build client once deployed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
Folds the separate nix-auto-installer repo's build outputs into this
flake so it can build every auto-installer artifact it used to,
negating the need for that repo:
- modules/installer/{common,iso,proxmox-lxc}.nix — migrated from
nix-auto-installer's common.nix/installer.nix/proxmox-lxc.nix.
- flake.nix gains nixosConfigurations.{installer,proxmox-lxc} and
packages.x86_64-linux.{iso,lxc,pxe,all}, matching the original
repo's interface (nix build .#iso / .#lxc / .#pxe / .#all).
- Dropped the live Gitea PAT baked into every installer image via
environment.etc."git-credentials" — gitea.lan.ddnsgeek.com/beatzaplenty/nixos.git
allows anonymous read, so the installer (which only ever reads the
flake, never pushes) doesn't need a credential at all.
- installer_old.nix wasn't migrated — dead code, unreferenced by the
source repo's flake.nix, and carried a second stale leaked token.
- The installer environment's own hardcoded login password hash is
preserved as-is: sops-nix has no stable per-boot host key to derive
an age key from on ephemeral installer media, so it can't reuse the
same per-host secret mechanism the rest of this repo uses without
separate design work.
- vars.adminSshKey / vars.dockerHost-style dedup: the installer's SSH
authorized key and its FLAKE_BASE_URL domain were exact duplicates
of values already in variables.nix / modules/common/configuration.nix,
so both now reference the single source of truth instead.
Verified eval-equivalent for every existing host (drvPath-identical)
and confirmed the migrated auto-install.sh script renders byte-for-byte
identical to the source repo's output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
Several single-purpose modules sat at modules/ root or in the
services/ catch-all despite the repo's established pattern of one
directory per concern (tailscale/, beszel/, docker/, nix-cache/):
- remote-builder-client.nix -> nix-cache/ (always co-included with
nix-cache/client.nix in flake.nix's mkTarget, same buildType guard)
- set-locale.nix -> common/ (unconditionally imported by
common/configuration.nix already)
- enable-ip-forwarding.nix -> networking/
- rotate-traefik-logs.nix -> traefik/rotate-logs.nix
- services/docker-health-to-gotify.nix and services/nextcloud-cron-job.nix
-> docker/ (both only ever imported by the docker build type, same
as the rest of modules/docker/*)
Pure path moves plus import-path updates in flake.nix,
common/configuration.nix, and build-types/docker.nix — verified
eval-equivalent (drvPath-identical) across representative hosts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01La55Nsss8jZ7ZuzUV9mfot
linode-minimal, proxmox-minimal, and lxc-minimal now all share
hosts/nix-minimal/host.nix instead of three separate per-platform
host files with different hostnames — every minimal-buildtype host is
named nix-minimal regardless of which platform it runs on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One file (variables.nix) holding every value that was previously
hardcoded and repeated across modules: LAN domain/CIDR, home/tailnet
domains, cross-host references (nix-cache substituter hostname, NFS
server hostname, remote-builder user), PXE/PBS IPs, timezone, and the
primary username.
Wired in via flake.nix's specialArgs (and home-manager's
extraSpecialArgs for the two home.nix files), so any module picks it
up by just adding `vars` to its function arguments — no explicit
import needed. Two hosts (nix-cache, server) now derive their own
networking.hostName from the same variable other hosts use to reach
them, so there's exactly one place to change either identifier.
Purely mechanical: every substituted value matches what was already
there, confirmed by identical toplevel .drv paths for all 17 targets
before and after.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audited the working tree and full git history for committed secrets
(gitleaks + trufflehog + manual grep, see secrets-inventory.md, kept
local/gitignored per the spec). Found: a password hash shared by root
and the nixos user across every host, two live Beszel monitoring
tokens, and a GitHub fine-grained PAT embedded in a home-manager
nix.conf.
Migrates all of them to sops-nix:
- .sops.yaml + secrets/*.yaml, encrypted for admin + the age keys
derived (via ssh-to-age) from each live host's existing SSH host
key — no new key material transferred to any machine.
- users.users.{root,nixos}.hashedPasswordFile replaces the inline
hashedPassword shared by every target.
- The GitHub PAT moves from a home-manager-managed, store-visible
nix.conf to a sops.templates-rendered file included via nix.conf's
native !include, system-wide instead of per-user.
- Beszel TOKEN moves from `environment` (store-visible) to
`environmentFile` (runtime-only via sops.templates); the dead
commented-out docker token is removed from the tree entirely.
Added a tracked pre-commit hook (gitleaks protect --staged, wired via
core.hooksPath) so a secret can't be committed by accident again, and
documented the sops workflow in README.md.
Structural verification only: all 17 flake targets evaluate, and
`nix build --dry-run --no-link` succeeds for the three currently
deployed hosts. Per CLAUDE.md, actual `nixos-rebuild switch` — the
step that confirms secrets decrypt and services start on a real
machine — is left for manual verification.
Git history still contains the original plaintext secrets; scrubbing
history (Milestone 3) and rotating every credential (Milestone 4) are
separate, deliberately gated steps per remove-sensetive-info-refactor.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generates all nixosConfigurations from mkTarget(platform, buildType,
hostPath) instead of hand-written per-host blocks, so adding a new
platform or build type is a one-line addition. Per-machine identity
(hostname, hostId, secrets, stateVersion) moves into hosts/<name>/host.nix;
platform-specific config (hardware, boot, networking) into
modules/platforms/*.nix; build-type config (minimal/server/docker/gui/
nix-cache/pxe-boot) into modules/build-types/*.nix.
Old flat targets (nixos, docker, server, nix-cache, nix-minimal, pxe-boot)
are replaced by the 17-target <platform>-<buildtype> matrix; each new
target was verified to evaluate before its old counterpart was removed.
CI workflows and docs/aliases now discover hosts dynamically via
nixosConfigurations attrNames and /etc/flake-target instead of hardcoded
lists, so they can't drift from flake.nix again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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