intended to swap out nixos-anywhere for terraform-nixos, over:

- don't need nixos-anywhere to install nixos; we preload nixos to VMs
- [awkward non-flake
usage](https://nix-community.github.io/nixos-anywhere/howtos/use-without-flakes.html#3-set-nixos-version-to-use)
-  seemed not to pick up on config changes, as observed by test VMs
losing their panel keys after TF sync

however, it seems that terraform-nixos has its own flaws:

- its output using a random id, i.e. forcing to push even on no changes
- so far did not get ssh authentication to work

2025-04-09 17:05:00 +02:00

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service deployment

usage

updating TF modules

$ npins update terraform-nixos
$ cd launch/
$ echo "{\"terraform-nixos\": $(nix-instantiate --eval --json -E '(import ../npins).terraform-nixos.outPath')}" > .auto.tfvars.json

local development

$ nix-shell
$ rm -rf .terraform/
$ tofu init

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