Support for Vultr

README.md

@@ -1,15 +1,25 @@
-This script aims to install NixOS on Digital Ocean droplets
-(starting from one of the distros that Digital Ocean supports out of the box)
+This script aims to install NixOS on Digital Ocean droplets, Vultr servers, or
+OVH Virtual Private Servers (starting from distros that these services upports
+out of the box)
 
-These are the only supported Digital Ocean images:
+## Source Distros
 
+This script has been tested and can install NixOS from the following source distros:
+
+On Digital Ocean:
 - Fedora 24 x64
 - Ubuntu 16.04 x64
 
-It has also been successfully tested on OVH Virtual Private Servers (with debian)
+On Vultr:
+- Ubuntu 18.10 x64
+
+On OVH Virtual Private Servers (experimental):
+- Debian
 
 YMMV with any other hoster + image combination.
 
+## Considerations
+
 nixos-infect is so named because of the high likelihood of rendering a system
 inoperable. Use with caution and preferably only on newly-provisioned
 systems.
@@ -20,6 +30,8 @@ runs to completion. Any errors halt execution. It's advised to run with
 inconsistent state, requiring a rebuild (in DigitalOcean panel: Droplet
 Settings -> "Destroy" -> "Rebuild from original").
 
+## Digital Ocean
+
 *TO USE:*
 - Add any custom config you want (see notes below)
 - Deploy the droplet indicated at the top of the file, enable ipv6, add your ssh key
@@ -32,7 +44,7 @@ cat and EOF in the Digital Ocean Web UI (or HTTP API):
 #cloud-config
 
 runcmd:
-  - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-18.09 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
+  - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | PROVIDER=digitalocean NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-18.09 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
 ```
 Potential tweaks:
 - `/etc/nixos/{,hardware-}configuration.nix`: rudimentary mostly static config
@@ -50,10 +62,23 @@ write_files:
       environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ vim ];
     }
 runcmd:
-  - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | NIXOS_IMPORT=./host.nix NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-18.09 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
+  - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | PROVIDER=digitalocean NIXOS_IMPORT=./host.nix NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-18.09 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
 
 ```
 
+## Vultr
+
+From a Vultr server, log into the box and invoke the following command:
+
+```bash
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | PROVIDER=vultr NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-18.09 bash
+```
+
+(One ought to be able to use a "Startup Script" for this but it seems like the
+installation around the time Nix gets installed for some reason.)
+
+## Motivation
+
 Motivation for this script: nixos-assimilate should supplant this script
 entirely, if it's ever completed. nixos-in-place was quite broken when I
 tried it, and also took a pretty janky approach that was substantially more

nixos-infect

@@ -10,11 +10,14 @@ makeConf() {
   # NB <<"EOF" quotes / $ ` in heredocs, <<EOF does not
   mkdir -p /etc/nixos
   local IFS=$'\n'; keys=($(grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)' /root/.ssh/authorized_keys))
+  local network_import=""
+
+  [ "$PROVIDER" = "digitalocean" ] && network_import="./networking.nix # generated at runtime by nixos-infect"
   cat > /etc/nixos/configuration.nix << EOF
 { ... }: {
   imports = [
     ./hardware-configuration.nix
-    ./networking.nix # generated at runtime by nixos-infect
+    $network_import
     $NIXOS_IMPORT
   ];
 
@@ -37,6 +40,10 @@ EOF
 }
 EOF
   
+  [ "$PROVIDER" = "digitalocean" ] && makeNetworkingConf
+}
+
+makeNetworkingConf() {
   # XXX It'd be better if we used procfs for all this...
   local IFS=$'\n'
   eth0_name=$(ip address show | grep '^2:' | awk -F': ' '{print $2}')
@@ -238,6 +245,8 @@ infect() {
   /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
 }
 
+[ -z "$PROVIDER" ] && PROVIDER="digitalocean" # you may also prepend PROVIDER=vultr to your call instead
+
 prepareEnv
 checkEnv
 makeConf