bij

bij is a remote deploy tool for NixOS similar to colmena. It tries to work without extra configuration with a Nix Flake exposing nixosConfigurations.

Usage

Deploy configuration of host astatine.

bij apply astatine

By default the FQDN of the host is used as the host addresse, but you can specify your own.

bij apply astatine --target 192.168.187.6

Normally the flake of the current working directory is used. But you can specify a custom path.

bij --flake /etc/nixos apply astatine

Change some defaults if they don't fit.

bij apply astatine --no-use-remote-sudo --no-use-substitutes

Apply change during next boot:

bij apply astatine --on-next-boot

Reboot host after applying config:

bij apply astatine --and-reboot

Combine activation and reboot:

bij apply astatine --on-next-boot --and-reboot

Sometimes it is required to execute some commands on a host directly.

bij exec astatine -- hostname