Managing my vps with nix and nixos is a great way to ensure that my server is reproducible and maintainable. This repository contains the configuration files and scripts necessary to set up and manage my VPS using NixOS.

Setup

• If using DigitalOcean:

Create a new custom image from the latest NixOS

nix run .#buildDoImage

That will create a result directory with the image file. Import that image into DigitalOcean and create a new droplet with it.

Then inside ./config, edit flake.nix to add a new configuration for your new vps in the colmena section.

• Elsewhere:

Follow the instructions in the nixos-anywhere repo to install NixOS on the VPS using the ./builder/nixos-anywhere directory.

Deployment

Deployemnt is done using colmena.