nixpkgs/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix

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# From an end-user configuration file (`configuration'), build a NixOS
# configuration object (`config') from which we can retrieve option
# values.
# !!! Please think twice before adding to this argument list!
# Ideally eval-config.nix would be an extremely thin wrapper
# around lib.evalModules, so that modular systems that have nixos configs
# as subcomponents (e.g. the container feature, or nixops if network
# expressions are ever made modular at the top level) can just use
# types.submodule instead of using eval-config.nix
{ # !!! system can be set modularly, would be nice to remove
system ? builtins.currentSystem
, # !!! is this argument needed any more? The pkgs argument can
# be set modularly anyway.
pkgs ? null
, # !!! what do we gain by making this configurable?
baseModules ? import ../modules/module-list.nix
, # !!! See comment about args in lib/modules.nix
extraArgs ? {}
, # !!! See comment about args in lib/modules.nix
specialArgs ? {}
, modules
, # !!! See comment about check in lib/modules.nix
check ? true
Add support for lightweight NixOS containers You can now say: systemd.containers.foo.config = { services.openssh.enable = true; services.openssh.ports = [ 2022 ]; users.extraUsers.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ "ssh-dss ..." ]; }; which defines a NixOS instance with the given configuration running inside a lightweight container. You can also manage the configuration of the container independently from the host: systemd.containers.foo.path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/foo"; where "path" is a NixOS system profile. It can be created/updated by doing: $ nix-env --set -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/foo \ -f '<nixos>' -A system -I nixos-config=foo.nix The container configuration (foo.nix) should define boot.isContainer = true; to optimise away the building of a kernel and initrd. This is done automatically when using the "config" route. On the host, a lightweight container appears as the service "container-<name>.service". The container is like a regular NixOS (virtual) machine, except that it doesn't have its own kernel. It has its own root file system (by default /var/lib/containers/<name>), but shares the Nix store of the host (as a read-only bind mount). It also has access to the network devices of the host. Currently, if the configuration of the container changes, running "nixos-rebuild switch" on the host will cause the container to be rebooted. In the future we may want to send some message to the container so that it can activate the new container configuration without rebooting. Containers are not perfectly isolated yet. In particular, the host's /sys/fs/cgroup is mounted (writable!) in the guest.
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, prefix ? []
, lib ? import ../../lib
}:
let extraArgs_ = extraArgs; pkgs_ = pkgs; system_ = system;
extraModules = let e = builtins.getEnv "NIXOS_EXTRA_MODULE_PATH";
in if e == "" then [] else [(import (builtins.toPath e))];
in
let
pkgsModule = rec {
_file = ./eval-config.nix;
key = _file;
config = {
nixpkgs.system = lib.mkDefault system_;
_module.args.pkgs = lib.mkIf (pkgs_ != null) (lib.mkForce pkgs_);
};
};
in rec {
# Merge the option definitions in all modules, forming the full
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# system configuration.
inherit (lib.evalModules {
inherit prefix check;
modules = modules ++ extraModules ++ baseModules ++ [ pkgsModule ];
args = extraArgs;
specialArgs = { modulesPath = ../modules; } // specialArgs;
}) config options;
# These are the extra arguments passed to every module. In
# particular, Nixpkgs is passed through the "pkgs" argument.
extraArgs = extraArgs_ // {
inherit modules baseModules;
};
inherit (config._module.args) pkgs;
}