NixOS support

[Sporesirius]

Support of NixOS as supported OS on VPS and other products.

[DavidDelebecque]

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in our roadmap.

NixOS support is not in our roadmap on a mid-term period. On Public Cloud, you can already create custom images tailor made for your needs and NixOS should work. ex with nixos cloudinit base image : https://gist.github.com/voidus/1230b200043b7f815e2513663d16353b

Thanks

[ldicarlo]

hey @DavidDelebecque, come on it's currently the fifth most upvoted issue on your backlog ^^!

[DavidDelebecque]

We'll investigate it as you insist ;-). Will be happy to know more if any specifics are expected from you ?

[ldicarlo]

As I see it, I would like to be able to choose NixOS when installing a VPS. NixOS has a special way to define ssh public keys, so that I can then copy the nix config files locally.

Currently when I need a new NixOS machine, I install as Ubuntu (not all versions work), I set up a root ssh public key and then I nixos-infect it running the lib.

I have nothing more as requirements than that because as soon as NixOS is installed, I push my nix derivations to make it like I need.

Refs https://nixos.wiki/wiki/SSH https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect

[Crocmagnon]

Hello, It's now the second most upvoted item on the roadmap 🎉 What's the result of your investigations @DavidDelebecque? Do you need more input from the community?

[teto]

ideally we would have native nixos support but with https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere once you've nailed the config, you can bootstrap nixos automatically. nixos-anywhere just needs to ssh to the initial machine (debian, ubuntu, as long it has ssh and kexec), kexecs into the nixos installer, partitions the disk according to your https://github.com/nix-community/disko config and installs your nixos on it, and finally reboots into a proper nixos.