Workstations

My workstations configuration using nix, nix-darwin and home-manager.

Project Structure

• common/: lib modules that can be imported from the workstation configuration
• files/: files that are not nix source
• secrets/: workstation argument files
• workstations/: per workstation nix configuration
• flake.nix: the nix flake definition file

So, to add a new workstation we just need to add a new argument file, let's call it secrets/example.args.nix using this template:

{
  # The name of the workstation, this is just used so you don't need to expose
  # your real hostname. This is the name the configuration will use to refer
  # to file names and other properties.
  name = "example";

  # Any extra modules you need to load as part of your worstation setup. You can
  # put these modules under the common directory.
  extraModules = [];

  system = {
    hostName = "host.example.com";  # Your real hostname
    platform = "x86-64";            # The platform of the host
  };

  user = {
    email = "[email protected]";       # Your e-mail (for git, ssh, etc...)
    id = "john.doe";                # Your real user ID in the host
    language = "en_US.utf-8";       # Your preferred language
    name = "John Doe";              # Your user display name
    timezone = "Europe/Amsterdam";  # Your local timezone
  };
}

Then create a sub-directory under workstations/ for your configuration, for example workstations/example/. Add two files under this directory, one called os.nix which will contain the nix-darwin related configuration, and another one called user.nix which will contain the home-manager configuration.

Populate these files with the configuration you need and deploy your workstation using the tasks below.

Tasks

This project uses Task as a project task runner.

Lint

Lints and formats the nix source code using alejandra.

task lint

Build

Only builds the configuration.

task build WORKSTATION=name

Deploy

Deploy the configuration to your workstation.

task deploy WORKSTATION=name

Release

Release a new version of the project to GitHub using the gh tool.

task release

Env

You can also create a .env file containing the value of the WORKSTATION variable, like this:

WORKSTATION=example

This way you can run the deploy task without needing to specify the WORKSTATION variable all the time.

git-crypt

As you might have guessed, the files under the secrets/ are encrypted so we don't leak any sensitive data. We achieve that by means of git-crypt. Please, make sure you have it installed so the encryption process works.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3.