Deployment

vpsAdminOS is a custom spin of NixOS and as such is not supported by NixOS deployment tools like NixOps or morph, although it is not too hard to patch them.

vpsAdminOS can be built from its repository using make, which calls nix build under the hood. Check the Makefile for more information. Another approach is to use vpsadminos-rebuild from an already installed system with a flake-based /etc/vpsadminos configuration.

At vpsFree.cz, we use our own tool for deploying vpsAdminOS and NixOS called confctl.

confctl

confctl is a Nix deployment tool similar to NixOps, morph, etc. See its homepage for more information.

vpsfree-cz-configuration is a confctl configuration used at vpsFree.cz. It also contains modules to build a PXE server to boot vpsAdminOS systems over network.

Patching

If you'd like to deploy vpsAdminOS systems using NixOps or morph, it is not too hard to patch them. We used them before we moved to confctl.

The main difference between building NixOS and vpsAdminOS is the flake output used for system configurations. vpsAdminOS systems are exposed as vpsadminosConfigurations.<name> through vpsadminos.lib.vpsadminosSystem. Examples of the older non-flake integration patches can be found at our deprecated forks:

• old NixOps fork
• old morph fork