15:08 <davidtwco> I have some questions about how nixops is normally used with bare metal hosts. My current plan is that I'd generate an ISO file that auto-installs with SSH and a user, then give that IP to `deployment.targetHost` in my physical configuration but I'm wondering what happens to options like `fileSystems.*` and `boot.loader.*` that I've got in my regular NixOS configurations. Ideally I want to avoid having a back and

15:08 <davidtwco> forth where I need to connect to the unprovisioned host to copy some configuration back before taking it over with nixops. Can someone clarify how this process normally works?

15:10 <gchristensen> davidtwco: ping me in 2h?

15:10 <davidtwco> sure thing

15:10 <gchristensen> thanks

17:10 <davidtwco> gchristensen: ping

17:11 <gchristensen> can I delay that ping 1h? :x I forgot I have been punting off a week's worth of pings to apparent right about now :P

17:11 <davidtwco> sure

18:11 <davidtwco> gchristensen: ping

18:11 <gchristensen> hi

18:11 <gchristensen> with nixops you need to get the hardware-configuration.nix off the host and in to the nixops network

18:12 <gchristensen> the Hetzner and Packet (in development) backends do this automatically the first time you deploy to the host

18:13 <gchristensen> maybe it would be interesting to have generic support for this copying in the "none" backend

18:14 <gchristensen> the packet provisioner on startup SSHes tothe remote and fetches a system.nix generated file : https://github.com/input-output-hk/nixops-packet/blob/cpr-support/nixopspacket/backends/device.py#L240-L247

18:14 <gchristensen> happy to talk more in a bit

18:14 <davidtwco> I'm trying to introduce nixops at work (I've used NixOS personally for a while, but not nixops) and we're trialing it with one or two of our servers, so I'm just working out what the workflow would look like and what I need to do to set up that first host.

18:16 <gchristensen> cool

18:16 <gchristensen> maybe we could do a PM in another hour (heh, sorry...) and talk a bit more about it?

18:19 <davidtwco> sure