bzh.social

Setup

NixOS on Hetzner Cloud

• Setup hetzner cloud server with latest Ubuntu
• Drop in your ssh key by going through the web interface
• ssh into the machine
• follow steps with nixos-infect

Deploy / Apply changes

• Log into any NixOS host with ssh access to the server

nixos-rebuild --use-remote-sudo --target-host [email protected] switch --flake .#bzh-social

Update system

• manually update inputs in flake.nix if necessary
• run nix flake udpate
• commit the changed flake.lock
• see above for deployment

Update mastodon

• the mastodon package from current stable channel is used
• to update mastodon, update the nixpkgs input in flake.nix as soon as a new version is available
• see above for updating the system