deploy-rs + nixos-anywhere

Makefile

@@ -1,25 +1,35 @@
 IP ?=
 HOST ?=
-deploy:
-	# push flake config to a remote server
+init:
 ifeq ($(IP),)
 	$(error IP not set)
 endif
 ifeq ($(HOST),)
 	$(error HOST not set)
 endif
+	nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- --flake .#$(HOST) --generate-hardware-config nixos-generate-config ./hosts/$(HOST)/hardware-configuration.nix --target-host nixos@$(IP)
+
+deploy:
+	# no impurity allowed
 ifneq ($(shell git diff),)
 	git add .
 	git commit -m "auto commit on build" -m "`PAGER=cat git diff --name-only --cached`"
 endif
-	rsync -azr ./ crown@$(IP):~/flake-config
-	ssh crown@$(IP) "sudo NIX_CONFIG='experimental-features = flakes pipe-operators' nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/flake-config#$(HOST)"
+	# push flake config to a remote server(s)
+	nix run github:serokell/deploy-rs .
 
 sops:
-	# update sops keys
+	# For setting up a new host: to generate a sops key from an existing ssh key
+	# just run `cat /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub | ssh-to-age` and then add
+	# that to the .sops.yaml file
 	sops updatekeys secrets.yaml
 
 .DEFAULT_GOAL := default
-.PHONY: default deploy sops
+.PHONY: default deploy init sops
 default:
-	# noop
+	# This is my tiny makefile to create new machines and update existing ones
+	# it requires you to have nix and sops installed to correctly setup a new
+	# system and nix to deploy to an existing one.
+	#
+	# I'm not using just cause I've already got make installed everywhere and I
+	# know how to use it.