Do this for a nicer developer experience in a safer language, which has
nice libraries available to e.g. build command line interfaces (e.g.
click).
Set minimum Python version to 3.10 to support match statements.
Create a skeleton python project using "hatch new -i --cli
infra-rebuild" with Hatch version 1.7.0 and modify it to fit this
project. This is the first step of porting infra-rebuild to Python.
Also provide a first .gitignore ignoring relevant build directories.
infra-rebuild is a simple NixOS deployment tool, which simply uses
nixos-rebuild internally, but tries to make it more convenient to deploy
infrastructure.
It supports most of the nixos-rebuild operations - build, build-vm,
build-vm-with-bootloader, switch, boot, test - but also provides a
reboot operation, which runs nixos-rebuild boot followed by initiating a
reboot.
The tool doesn't need any configuration for a standard use case. It
tries to get the hosts FQDN from its NixOS configuration and tries to
deploy to it. However for special cases, where a custom target hostname,
user or port is needed, it allows one to define those in a
deployment_configuration.json.
infra-rebuild also allows for multiple hosts to be specified at once.
The tool then simply runs the specified operation for each host
sequentially.
Much inspiration was taken from bij.
See here: https://git.clerie.de/clerie/bij
And inspiration was also taken from Colmena.
See here: https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena
June