infra-rebuild

infra-rebuild mirrors nixos-rebuild closely in its command-line interface, but focuses on making infrastructure deployment more convenient. It is built for infrastructure defined in a flake, where each hosts configuration is represented by a different nixosConfiguration in the flakes output.

For building the configuration of e.g. two hosts called web-01 and git one can simply run:

infra-rebuild build web-01 git

For deploying the hosts - using the switch operation - it's as simple as:

infra-rebuild switch web-01 git

Here infra-rebuild will simply run nixos-rebuild switch with the target-host option set for each host. Because infra-rebuild tries to be usable without any configuration, by default it queries the hosts FQDN from its nixosConfiguration and uses that for the target host. However to override aspects of the target host for specific or all hosts, infra-rebuild also accepts a deployment_configuration.json as configuration.

Configuration

infra-rebuild accepts optional configuration in a deployment_configuration.json.
The following keys are available to be set for configuring various aspects of deployment for specific or all hosts:

• default.targetPort: A default port to use for connecting to all host.
• default.targetUser: A default user to use for connecting to all host.
• hosts.<host>.targetPort: The port to use for connecting to <host>.
• hosts.<host>.targetUser: The user to use for connecting to <host>.
• hosts.<host>.targetHostname: The hostname to use for connecting to <host>.

Example

An example deployment_configuration.json might look like this then:

{
  "default": {
    "targetPort": 2222,
    "targetUser": "deploy"
  },
  "hosts": {
    "web-01": {
      "targetUser": "web-deploy",
      "targetHostname": "web-01-intern.infra.example",
      "targetPort": 22
    }
  },
  "git": {
    "targetUser": "git-deploy"
  }
}

Order of Precedence

The order of precedence from least to greatest for targetPort and targetUser is the following:

1. system default
2. default.targetPort/User
3. hosts.<host>.targetPort/User

The order of precedence from least to greatest for targetHostname is the following:

1. FQDN from hosts nixosConfiguration
2. hosts.<host>.targetHostname

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.