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rapenne-s / bento

A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date.

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add a config option to not build the config locally #6

Closed gador closed 1 year ago

gador commented 1 year ago

fixes #5

I have a deployment server which also runs a nix binary cache (attic). The deployment server is rather slow and I have a (local) CI machine which regularly pushes updates to the binary cache. For me it doesn't make sense to build the config (again) by bento, even if it just fetches all the build artifacts from attic.

So I added an option to not build the config by bento. I suppose it could be beneficial for the following usecases:

slow or underpowered deployment server
wrong architecture of the deployment server (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
limited disk space of the deployment server
convoluted build environments with CI server (or any server which builds the config separately)

What do you think?

rapenne-s commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your contribution, the code is nice and fits perfectly bento's workflow 👌