nix.dev: Cloudflare not deploying

[fricklerhandwerk]

Affected service

nix.dev website

Describe the issue

Related: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/772

Unbeknownst to the @NixOS/documentation-team, Cloudflare requires Poetry because it can't Nix, so when we removed it that broke deployments.

Proposal

Please help us with:

• Add a Hydra jobset with a nix.dev output tarball, so we can unpack the result anywhere
• Optionally move to Fastly, since other infrastructure is hosted there

There's no good reason for us to revert to Poetry because that requires beginners to understand more things about the setup, so that should be the last resort.

[delroth]

Optionally move to Fastly, since other infrastructure is hosted there

s/Fastly/Netlify/ I imagine?

(I personally think that would be the better option if it has the features you currently use from Cloudflare Pages - I think reducing our service footprint is good to avoid carrying unnecessary complexity.)

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-11-02-documentation-team-meeting-notes-91/34938/1

[delroth]

Taking the discussion to https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/772 - keeping this open on the infra side to track making sure nix.dev is properly onboarded onto NixOS's infra and they are not blocked on us.

[fricklerhandwerk]

This is resolved. Thanks a lot @delroth for your quick help.

If you'll ever advertise what you're doing in some sort of retrospective, that would be a success story.