architecture-docs/NixOps4-based-installation-process.md

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-# NixOps4-based Installation Process
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-This documents explains how NixOps4 could be leveraged to provide a smooth installation experience for a simple, monolithic deployment.
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-It does not go into detail about the way Nix Panel hooks into this, or whether Nix Panel manages the same NixOps4 deployment that also contains the infrastructure; a single NixOps4 deployment could provide a nice simplification in the early stages of the project.
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-## Components
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-Required for the setup steps in this document:
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-- `nixops4`: generic deployment tool using Nix
-- `landscaper.iso`: installation image that bootstraps a completely new and independent Fedi cluster - a NixOS installer with a handful of extra definitions (@roberth: easy)
-- `nixops4-modules-ssh-keypair`: NixOps4 resource provider that generates keys
-- `nixops4-pxe-nbp`: NixOps4 resource provider that inserts an NBP image into a (local) PXE server configuration
-- `nixops4-modules-ssh`: A module that calls `ssh` using `nixops4-resources-local`
-- `nixops4-resources-local`: A module that can create files and call commands locally (prototyped)
-- `nixops4-modules-nixos`: A module that calls `nixos-rebuild switch --target-host` or implements similar functionality
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-Expected needs:
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-- `nixops4-resources-proxmox`
-- A resource provider that talks to a DNS server's API
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-## Steps
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-### 1. `landscaper` setup
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-1. connect your first server into the network
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-2. boot `landscaper.iso` from a usb stick, and install NixOS onto this server we'll call `landscaper`
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-`landscaper.iso` is  a slightly customized NixOS installer that includes the `landscaper` NixOS module
-     in the default config that it generates
-  - mvp: copy and import the landscaper module by hand into the normal NixOS live system
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-The `landscaper` module contains 
-    - nixops4 (mvp and initial setup)
-    - a nixops4 service (if/when nix-panel is capable of managing the infra)
-    - a tftp server
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-The NixOS installer puts the template NixOps4 expression in `/root/fediversity-network`
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-### 2. Add a proxmox host
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-1. - add a MAC address and IP address to the `proxmoxMACs` option (or similar)
-    - this automatically declares resources that will set up the new server
-      - `installation_host_key`: a temporary SSH host key pair
-      - `installation_pxe_nbp`: an entry in `landscaper`'s PXE server, referring to/including a kernel and initrd that run disko and performs a NixOS installation on the server disk(s)
-      - `ssh_host_public_key`: a resource that waits for SSH to come up, logs in to replace the host key and sends the returns the new public key as its resource output
-      - `nixos`: a resource that `nix copy`-es a NixOS toplevel, then updates the system profile and activates it
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-      - unknown: built-in services like Nix-panel, perhaps depending on the number of `proxmoxMACs`
-2. `nixops apply`
-    - this starts to create resources,
-    - up to the point that `ssh_host_public_key` waits for the server to boot
-3. turn on the server
-4. wait for `nixops apply` to complete
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-## Notes
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-Unknown: add to step 2 or step 3 (new), depending on the amount of shared infra:
- - resources for certain objects in the proxmox api
-    - this creates nixpanel, and shared infrastructure
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