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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8a72d2fee --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ + + +# Turn a Cloud at Cost CentOS-7-64bit server into NixOS + +1. Configure the system (`$systemname`) you'd like to install (see Configuration below). +2. Create new server instance (either Custom or cloudpro) using "CentOS-7-64bit". + Note the servername (something like c731445864-cloudpro-388922936). +3. `cac_login=xxx cac_key=yyy ./infest-cac-CentOS-7-64bit.sh servername:$servername $systename` +4. Enjoy. (`ssh root@$systename`) + +# Configuration + +Configure your system in modules/$systemname +See modules/cd/default.nix as an example. + +Notice that modules/$systemname/networking will be autogenerated (but not committed). + +secrets/$systemname/nix/foo can be accessed as `<secrets/foo>` from within the configuration. + +You might want `secrets/$systemname/rsync/etc/tinc/retiolum/rsa_key.priv`. + +You might want `secrets/$systemname/nix/hashedPasswords.nix`, which looks like + +```nix +_: { users.extraUsers.root.hashedPassword = "XXX"; } +``` + +`XXX` can be generated with e.g. + +``` +mkpasswd -m sha-512 -S $(openssl rand -base64 16 | tr -d '+=' | head -c 16) +``` |