jesus the ruby cult was fucking painful

similar to the ai cult now, “look i’m coding in pseudo english”

puke

if you don’t need proxmox’s admin tools

try running podman in NixOS on ZFS

Podman inside Nixos inside LXC inside Proxmox

Auto updates configurable everywhere

with so many wasm frameworks you can use any language you like

podman inside nixos inside lxc inside proxmox

PE from server rendering only to a full interactive SPA in the browser is really not trivial both for frameworks and app devs

there are a handful of frameworks that support it fairly ergonomically now but it’s a discipline that takes time and effort

also disabling javascript is a tiny minority use case

master? tut, tut, tut

zed has delivered everything lapce was promising

i’ve been on the zed wagon for months

great, perfect imo

use a cheap vlan switch to make an actual vlan DMZ with the services’ router

use non-root containers everywhere. segment services in different containers

i wish they would switch the reference implementation to conduit

there is core components on the client side in rust so maybe that’s the way for the future

use nixos! you won’t regret it

dem figma picture get real big these days

i just transitioned from a dedicated pfsense machine to openwrt LXC container in proxmox machine

the idea is to have 2 or more openwrt instances in different proxmox machines for some HA routing to my self hosted subnet(s)

going well so far and i think i know a lot more about routing (ha). openwrt is pretty great though.

ps. i think i’m having issues with udp port forwarding but not sure

i have found this reference very useful https://mynixos.com/options/

yeah proxmox is not necessary unless you need lots of separate instances to play around with

this is my container config for element/matrix podman containers do not run as root so you have to get the file privileges right on the volumes mapped into the containers. i used top to find out what user the services were running as. you can see there are some settings there where you can change the user if you are having permissions problems

{ pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:

{

  imports = [
    (modulesPath + "/virtualisation/proxmox-lxc.nix")
  ];

  security.pki.certificateFiles = [ "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" ];

  system.stateVersion = "23.11";
  system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
  system.autoUpgrade.allowReboot = false;

  nix.gc = {
    automatic = true;
    dates = "weekly";
    options = "--delete-older-than 14d";
  };

  services.openssh = {
    enable = true;
    settings.PasswordAuthentication = true;
  };

  users.users.XXXXXX = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    home = "/home/XXXXXX";
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
    shell = pkgs.zsh;
  };

  programs.zsh.enable = true;

  environment.etc = {
    "fail2ban/filter.d/matrix-synapse.local".text = pkgs.lib.mkDefault (pkgs.lib.mkAfter ''
      [Definition]
      failregex = .*POST.* - <HOST> - 8008.*\n.*\n.*Got login request.*\n.*Failed password login.*
                  .*POST.* - <HOST> - 8008.*\n.*\n.*Got login request.*\n.*Attempted to login as.*\n.*Invalid username or password.*
    '');
  };

  services.fail2ban = {
    enable = true;
    maxretry = 3;
    bantime = "10m";
    bantime-increment = {
      enable = true;
      multipliers = "1 2 4 8 16 32 64";
      maxtime = "168h";
      overalljails = true;
    };
    jails = {
      matrix-synapse.settings = {
        filter = "matrix-synapse";
        action = "%(known/action)s";
        logpath = "/srv/logs/synapse.json.log";
        backend = "auto";
        findtime = 600;
        bantime  = 600;
        maxretry = 2;
      };
    };
  };

  virtualisation.oci-containers = {
    containers = {

      postgres = {
        autoStart = false;
        environment = {
          POSTGRES_USER = "XXXXXX";
          POSTGRES_PASSWORD = "XXXXXX";
          LANG = "en_US.utf8";
        };
        image = "docker.io/postgres:14";
        ports = [ "5432:5432" ];
        volumes = [
          "/srv/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data"
        ];
        extraOptions = [
          "--label" "io.containers.autoupdate=registry"
          "--pull=newer"
        ];
      };

      synapse = {
        autoStart = false;
        environment = {
          LANG = "C.UTF-8";
#          UID="0";
#          GID="0";
        };
 #       user = "1001:1000";
        image = "ghcr.io/element-hq/synapse:latest";
        ports = [ "8008:8008" ];
        volumes = [
          "/srv/synapse:/data"
        ];
        log-driver = "json-file";
        extraOptions = [
          "--label" "io.containers.autoupdate=registry"
          "--log-opt" "max-size=10m" "--log-opt" "max-file=1" "--log-opt" "path=/srv/logs/synapse.json.log"
          "--pull=newer"
        ];
        dependsOn = [ "postgres" ];
      };

      element = {
        autoStart = true;
        image = "docker.io/vectorim/element-web:latest";
        ports = [ "8009:80" ];
        volumes = [
          "/srv/element/config.json:/app/config.json"
        ];
        extraOptions = [
          "--label" "io.containers.autoupdate=registry"
          "--pull=newer"
        ];
#        dependsOn = [ "synapse" ];
      };

      call = {
        autoStart = true;
        image = "ghcr.io/element-hq/element-call:latest-ci";
        ports = [ "8080:8080" ];
        volumes = [
          "/srv/call/config.json:/app/config.json"
        ];
        extraOptions = [
          "--label" "io.containers.autoupdate=registry"
          "--pull=newer"
        ];
      };

      livekit = {
        autoStart = true;
        image = "docker.io/livekit/livekit-server:latest";
        ports = [ "7880:7880" "7881:7881" "50000-60000:50000-60000/udp" "5349:5349" "3478:3478/udp" ];
        cmd = [ "--config" "/etc/config.yaml" ];
        entrypoint = "/livekit-server";
        volumes = [
          "/srv/livekit:/etc"
        ];
        extraOptions = [
          "--label" "io.containers.autoupdate=registry"
          "--pull=newer"
        ];
      };

      livekitjwt = {
        autoStart = true;
        image = "ghcr.io/element-hq/lk-jwt-service:latest-ci";
        ports = [ "7980:8080" ];
        environment = {
          LK_JWT_PORT = "8080";
          LIVEKIT_URL = "wss://livekit.XXXXXX.dynu.net";
          LIVEKIT_KEY = "XXXXXX";
          LIVEKIT_SECRET = "XXXXXX";
        };
        entrypoint = "/lk-jwt-service";
        extraOptions = [
          "--label" "io.containers.autoupdate=registry"
          "--pull=newer"
        ];
      };

    };
  };

}

this is my nginx config for my element/matrix services

as you can see i am using a proxmox NixOS with an old 23.11 nix channel but i’m sure the config can be used in other NixOS environments

{ pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:

{
  imports = [
    (modulesPath + "/virtualisation/proxmox-lxc.nix")
  ];

  security.pki.certificateFiles = [ "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" ];

  system.stateVersion = "23.11";
  system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
  system.autoUpgrade.allowReboot = true;

  nix.gc = {
    automatic = true;
    dates = "weekly";
    options = "--delete-older-than 14d";
  };

  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 80 443 ];

  services.openssh = {
    enable = true;
    settings.PasswordAuthentication = true;
  };

  users.users.XXXXXX = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    home = "/home/XXXXXX";
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
    shell = pkgs.zsh;
  };

  programs.zsh.enable = true;

  security.acme = {
    acceptTerms = true;
    defaults.email = "[email protected]";
  };

  services.nginx = {
    enable = true;

    virtualHosts._ = {
      default = true;
      extraConfig = "return 500; server_tokens off;";
    };

    virtualHosts."XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      addSSL = true;

      locations."/_matrix/federation/v1" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:8008";
        extraConfig = "client_max_body_size 300M;" +
          "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;" +
          "proxy_set_header Host $host;" +
          "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;";
      };

      locations."/" = {
        extraConfig = "return 302 https://element.XXXXXX.dynu.net;";
      };

      extraConfig = "proxy_http_version 1.1;";
    };

    virtualHosts."matrix.XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      addSSL = true;

      extraConfig = "proxy_http_version 1.1;";

      locations."/" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:8008";
        extraConfig = "client_max_body_size 300M;" +
          "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;" +
          "proxy_set_header Host $host;" +
          "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;";
      };
    };

    virtualHosts."element.XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      addSSL = true;
      locations."/" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:8009/";
        extraConfig = "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;";
      };
    };

    virtualHosts."call.XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      addSSL = true;
      locations."/" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:8080/";
        extraConfig = "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;";
      };
    };

    virtualHosts."livekit.XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      addSSL = true;

      locations."/wss" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:7881/";
#        proxyWebsockets = true;
        extraConfig = "proxy_http_version 1.1;" +
          "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;" +
          "proxy_set_header Host $host;" +
          "proxy_set_header Connection \"upgrade\";" +
          "proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;";
      };

      locations."/" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:7880/";
#        proxyWebsockets = true;
        extraConfig = "proxy_http_version 1.1;" +
          "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;" +
          "proxy_set_header Host $host;" +
          "proxy_set_header Connection \"upgrade\";" +
          "proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;";
      };
    };

    virtualHosts."livekit-jwt.XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      addSSL = true;
      locations."/" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:7980/";
        extraConfig = "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;";
      };
    };

    virtualHosts."turn.XXXXXX.dynu.net" = {
      enableACME = true;
      http2 = true;
      addSSL = true;
      locations."/" = {
        proxyPass = "http://192.168.10.131:5349/";
      };
    };

  };
}

you only need to reboot Nix when something low level has changed. i honestly don’t know where that line is drawn so i reboot quite a lot when i’m setting up a Nix server and then hardly reboot it at all from then on even with auto-updates running oh and if i make small changes to the services i just run sudo nixos-rebuild switch and don’t reboot