Setting up distributed builds

[fricklerhandwerk]

Setting up distributed builds is a very common use case, especially for developers.

Write a step by step tutorial to configure a remote build machine with NixOS and hook up the client.

Ideally this would also entail setting up post-build-hook daemon that pushes build results to a common cache.

Also list alternative solutions:

• buildbot-nix
• Hercules-CI

Related:

• https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/1012
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/working-setup-with-a-post-build-hook-daemon/48731

[nixos-discourse]

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

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/technical-writer-for-nix-documentation/48739/1