kirikae
This is my first “larger” project in Zig. I’m fairly new to the language. The inspiration for the project came from colmena, which I used prior to writing this tool. I found colmena lacked features I really wanted/needed so I set out to write a similar tool myself and simultaneously further my understanding of Zig.
I am well aware the code quality is probably quite bad. I basically made a best effort of structuring and avoiding duplication, yet I am unhappy with the code’s readbility and how it is structured. The nix-side is definitely thought out more than the actual Zig code. Most importantly though, I have a logo ^^
The following will probably only make sense to people who are already familiar with Nix (flakes). The project works by mapping each kirikae.hosts entry to a nixosConfiguration with the same name. Refer to the project’s README.md for a more detailed example. It then offers a variety of subcommands, ranging from just building or applying a specific, or all configurations, to simply spawning a shell or running a command remotely. For a full list refer to the project’s README.md.
We currently use this project at our local hack space, to deploy NixOS-VMs and -LXCs.
While writing this project I learned more about how to hold the “new” Io a bit better. I hope to learn more about writing Zig, moving this project forward.
Feel free to leave feedback and suggestions for improvement, I’d love to hear it ^^
Supported Zig versions
Currently targeting 0.16.0.
