Switch from infect via cloud-init to nixos-anywhere.

README.md

@@ -41,5 +41,14 @@ Error: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets: 422 (request "116c778d-8e7
 Oh. [Well that sucks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/custom-images/details/limits/). Digital Ocean can't do IPv6 on custom images.
 
 ## With cloud-init
+
+I tried creating a cloud-init function based on NixOS-infect. You can see the content in `digitalocean/infect-nixos.yaml`. I added it to the startup command via `doctl compute droplet create ... --user-data-file digitalocean/infect-nixos.yaml`. This may have a way of working, but I don't get a log and it doesn't get infected, so something fundamental isn't working. I abandoned it.
+
+## With nixos-anywhere.
+
+```
+$ nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --no-disko-deps --flake ./nixos-anywhere#digitalocean --target-host root@64.23.242.187
+```
+
 Cloud init data:
 curl http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json

digitalocean/create-droplet.sh

@@ -7,6 +7,5 @@ doctl compute droplet create \
 	--size s-1vcpu-1gb \
 	--ssh-keys 48777034,46710608 \
 	--tag-name nixos \
-	--user-data-file digitalocean/infect-nixos.yaml \
 	--wait
 

digitalocean/infect-nixos.yaml

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
 #cloud-config
+write_files:
+- path: /etc/nixos/host.nix
+  permissions: '0644'
+  content: |
+    {pkgs, ...}:
+    {
+      environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ neofetch neovim ];
+    }
 runcmd:
-– curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sheran/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect | PROVIDER=digitalocean NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-23.05 bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/infect.log
+  - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elitak/nixos-infect/master/nixos-infect |  NIXOS_IMPORT=./host.nix NIX_CHANNEL=nixos-25.05 bash 2>&1 | tee /var/log/infect.log

nixos-anywhere/flake.lock

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "disko": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "nixpkgs": [
+          "nixpkgs"
+        ]
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1752113600,
+        "narHash": "sha256-7LYDxKxZgBQ8LZUuolAQ8UkIB+jb4A2UmiR+kzY9CLI=",
+        "owner": "nix-community",
+        "repo": "disko",
+        "rev": "79264292b7e3482e5702932949de9cbb69fedf6d",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-community",
+        "repo": "disko",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixos-facter-modules": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1750412875,
+        "narHash": "sha256-uP9Xxw5XcFwjX9lNoYRpybOnIIe1BHfZu5vJnnPg3Jc=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "nixos-facter-modules",
+        "rev": "14df13c84552a7d1f33c1cd18336128fbc43f920",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "nixos-facter-modules",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1751949589,
+        "narHash": "sha256-mgFxAPLWw0Kq+C8P3dRrZrOYEQXOtKuYVlo9xvPntt8=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "9b008d60392981ad674e04016d25619281550a9d",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixpkgs-unstable",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "disko": "disko",
+        "nixos-facter-modules": "nixos-facter-modules",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}