Continuing from First NixOS and again many thanks to Matthew Croughan and to anyone who tunes into my live impromptu NixOS streams upon https://www.youtube.com/@kaihendry/streams

Questions

• How do know if your config has drifted? nixos-rebuild test is slow when.. nothing has changed! (at least five seconds)
• Test roll back
• How is data managed? Is it comparable to Docker volumes?

Different configurations = profiles?

ls /nix/var/nix/profiles

I don’t know how to tell which profile equates to my configuration.nix

TODO profiles

system.copySystemConfiguration

Data is in /var

NixOS does use the FHS in this case.

I am not sure if I can expect NixOS to manage the variable (mutable state) directory at all.

How to find configuration of a service

Not easy!

systemctl cat smokeping | grep config
ExecStart=/nix/store/mx8dxnbbgw7zhg4fr0fkd8d1bg985qfg-smokeping-2.8.2/bin/smokeping --config=/nix/store/j7njc6iiq1x13kd9i52dm46g856gzxkq-smokeping.conf --nodaemon

The configuration is:

/nix/store/j7njc6iiq1x13kd9i52dm46g856gzxkq-smokeping.conf

TODO secrets

https://github.com/Kranzes/nix-config/tree/master/secrets