Meta Options
The following is a list of options that can be added to the meta attribute set.
For compatibility with NixOps, you may name it network instead of meta.
However, you cannot specify both at the same time.
description
A short description for the configuration.
Type: string
Default
"A Colmena Hive"
machinesFile
Use the machines listed in this file when building this hive configuration.
If your Colmena host has nix configured to allow for remote builds (for nix-daemon, your user being included in trusted-users) you can set a machines file that will be passed to the underlying nix-store command during derivation realization as a builders option. For example, if you support multiple orginizations each with their own build machine(s) you can ensure that builds only take place on your local machine and/or the machines specified in this file.
See https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#chap-distributed-builds for the machine specification format.
This option is ignored when builds are initiated on the remote nodes
themselves via deployment.buildOnTarget or --build-on-target. To
still use the Nix distributed build functionality, configure the
builders on the target nodes with nix.buildMachines.
Type: null or path
Default
null
name
The name of the configuration.
Type: string
Default
"hive"
nixpkgs
The pinned Nixpkgs package set. Accepts one of the following:
- A path to a Nixpkgs checkout
- The Nixpkgs lambda (e.g., import
) - An initialized Nixpkgs attribute set
This option must be specified when using Flakes.
Type: unspecified
Default
null
nodeNixpkgs
Node-specific Nixpkgs pins.
Type: attribute set of unspecified
Default
{}
specialArgs
A set of special arguments to be passed to NixOS modules.
This will be merged into the specialArgs used to evaluate
the NixOS configurations.
Type: attribute set of unspecified
Default
{}