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fergal is an 8-port SFP+ switch on a Realtek RTL9303, running OpenWrt rather than RouterOS or UniFi. It is not part of the fabric yet, but its firmware is now built here via astro's nix-openwrt-imagebuilder. Packages are baked into the image: OpenWrt's package server keeps only the current build of each feed, so installing at runtime stops working as soon as the feed moves past the running firmware. Those feed indexes rotate constantly, and upstream pins only the indexes -- a mismatch drops evaluation into import-from-derivation, putting this flake's eval on the network. The openwrt-feeds input pins expanded per-package hashes instead, in a repository of its own because they run to hundreds of thousands of generated lines. Flashing gets a procedure doc and a thin skill pointing at it, the same split as the box installation and nixpkgs upgrade procedures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Deployment documentation
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> **Note:** these pages are a work in progress and were **agent-generated** from the repository.
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> They may be incomplete or out of date — treat the Nix configuration as the source of truth.
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This directory documents the boxes managed by this flake: their roles, network assignments,
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hierarchy, and the services they run. For the mechanics of the repo itself (conventions, module
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system internals for contributors, agent guidance), see [`AGENTS.md`](../AGENTS.md).
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The two big sites follow the pattern:
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```
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physical host (VM host)
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└── VM (for things impractical to containerise)
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└── container host VM
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└── NixOS containers (one per application group)
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```
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Not every box fits this pattern, but **colony** and **home** are organised this way.
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## General
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- [`architecture.md`](architecture.md) — the custom module system, `my.*` namespace, multiple
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nixpkgs channels, shared module inventory.
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- [`networking.md`](networking.md) — network assignments, domains, site topologies, router HA,
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the AS211024 L2 mesh, BGP, WireGuard, Tailscale.
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- [`deployment.md`](deployment.md) — deploy-rs, devshell commands, secrets workflow, CI.
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- [`nixpkgs-upgrade.md`](nixpkgs-upgrade.md) — guided procedure for the periodic upgrade of the four
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nixpkgs channels and home-manager (fork rebase, stable bumps, input review).
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- [`install-box.md`](install-box.md) — guided procedure for installing a new box, from the booted
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installer through partitioning, the box config, `do-install` and documentation.
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- [`openwrt-flash.md`](openwrt-flash.md) — guided procedure for flashing a flake-built image onto an
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OpenWrt box, from the build through pre-flight, `sysupgrade` and verification.
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- [`reference/dns.md`](reference/dns.md) — generated forward and reverse DNS record reference.
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- [`reference/nixos-options.md`](reference/nixos-options.md) — generated per-option reference for
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the custom `my.*` NixOS modules.
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## Site: colony (Amsterdam)
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Physical host and public-infrastructure hub — see [`sites/colony/README.md`](sites/colony/README.md).
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```
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colony (physical VM host, ams1)
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├── estuary ── edge router: WAN, firewall/NAT, DNS, BGP (AS211024), WireGuard
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├── shill ──── NixOS container host ──┬── middleman (reverse proxy, ACME, nginx-sso, librespeed)
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│ ├── vaultwarden (password manager)
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│ ├── colony-psql (shared PostgreSQL)
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│ ├── chatterbox (Matrix Synapse + bridges)
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│ ├── jackflix (media stack)
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│ ├── object (MinIO, Harmonia Nix cache, Sharry, HedgeDoc, wastebin)
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│ ├── toot (Bluesky PDS; Mastodon disabled)
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│ ├── waffletail (Tailscale subnet router / exit node)
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│ ├── qclk (WireGuard management appliance)
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│ ├── gam (Terraria server)
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│ └── jam (raw nspawn customer container)
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├── whale2 ─── podman/OCI host for game servers
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├── git ────── Gitea + Gitea Actions runner
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├── mail ───── Debian VM running mailcow (not NixOS)
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└── darts ──── third-party/customer VM (opaque, not NixOS)
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portcullis (bare-metal edge box for Nikhef — staged, not yet in service)
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```
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## Site: home
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Redundant routers, VM host, storage, IoT containers and the workstation — see
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[`sites/home/README.md`](sites/home/README.md). The hand-configured switch fabric (jim/dave/brian)
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and the Digiweb WAN path are documented in [`sites/home/switches.md`](sites/home/switches.md); the
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5G modem being evaluated as a replacement for `stream`'s WAN is in
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[`sites/home/wwan.md`](sites/home/wwan.md).
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h.nul.ie
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├── palace (physical VM host — AMD, 100G, SR-IOV)
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│ ├── river ── primary router VM (PPPoE / Digiweb WAN)
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│ ├── cellar ─ NVMe-oF / SPDK storage target VM
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│ └── sfh ──── container host VM ("shill from home")
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│ ├── hass ── Home Assistant + Frigate + MQTT (container)
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│ └── unifi ─ UniFi controller (container)
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├── stream (physical secondary router — Virgin Media WAN)
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└── castle (workstation / gaming desktop — netboot, NVMe-oF root)
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```
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## Remote boxes
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The edge VPSes and remote `kelder` site are indexed in [`remote/README.md`](remote/README.md).
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## Mobile boxes
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The laptop is indexed in [`mobile/README.md`](mobile/README.md).
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## Misc
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- [`misc/installer.md`](misc/installer.md) — the custom NixOS installer image.
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## A note on the assignment tables
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The consolidated [`Box assignments`](networking.md#box-assignments) tables in
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[`networking.md`](networking.md) (one per site, between `<!-- assignments: <site> -->` markers)
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are **generated from the flake** (`nixos.allAssignments`) by `nix run .#update-docs-assignments` —
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CI refreshes them on push. Individual box pages link to that section rather than carrying their
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own table. Only the Notes column is hand-written; don't hand-edit the other cells.
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