#!/usr/bin/env bash # Installs NixOS on a Hetzner server, wiping the server. # # This is for a specific server configuration; adjust where needed. # # Prerequisites: # * Update the script to adjust SSH pubkeys, hostname, NixOS version etc. # # Usage: # ssh root@YOUR_SERVERS_IP bash -s < hetzner-dedicated-wipe-and-install-nixos.sh # # When the script is done, make sure to boot the server from HD, not rescue mode again. # Explanations: # # * Adapted from https://gist.github.com/nh2/78d1c65e33806e7728622dbe748c2b6a # * Following largely https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installing-from-other-distro. # * **Important:** We boot in legacy-BIOS mode, not UEFI, because that's what Hetzner uses. # * NVMe devices aren't supported for booting (those require EFI boot) # * We set a custom `configuration.nix` so that we can connect to the machine afterwards, # inspired by https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Hetzner_Online # * This server has 2 HDDs. # We put everything on RAID1. # Storage scheme: `partitions -> RAID -> LVM -> ext4`. # * A root user with empty password is created, so that you can just login # as root and press enter when using the Hetzner spider KVM. # Of course that empty-password login isn't exposed to the Internet. # Change the password afterwards to avoid anyone with physical access # being able to login without any authentication. # * The script reboots at the end. set -eu set -o pipefail set -x # Inspect existing disks lsblk # Undo existing setups to allow running the script multiple times to iterate on it. # We allow these operations to fail for the case the script runs the first time. set +e umount /mnt vgchange -an set -e # Stop all mdadm arrays that the boot may have activated. mdadm --stop --scan # Prevent mdadm from auto-assembling arrays. # Otherwise, as soon as we create the partition tables below, it will try to # re-assemple a previous RAID if any remaining RAID signatures are present, # before we even get the chance to wipe them. # From: # https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166688/prevent-debian-from-auto-assembling-raid-at-boot/504035#504035 # We use `>` because the file may already contain some detected RAID arrays, # which would take precedence over our ``. echo 'AUTO -all ARRAY UUID=00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000' > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf # Create partition tables (--script to not ask) parted --script /dev/sda mklabel gpt parted --script /dev/sdb mklabel gpt # Create partitions (--script to not ask) # # We create the 1MB BIOS boot partition at the front. # # Note we use "MB" instead of "MiB" because otherwise `--align optimal` has no effect; # as per documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/unit.html#unit: # > Note that as of parted-2.4, when you specify start and/or end values using IEC # > binary units like "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", etc., parted treats those values as exact # # Note: When using `mkpart` on GPT, as per # https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/mkpart.html#mkpart # the first argument to `mkpart` is not a `part-type`, but the GPT partition name: # ... part-type is one of 'primary', 'extended' or 'logical', and may be specified only with 'msdos' or 'dvh' partition tables. # A name must be specified for a 'gpt' partition table. # GPT partition names are limited to 36 UTF-16 chars, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_(LBA_2-33). parted --script --align optimal /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt mkpart 'BIOS-boot-partition' 1MB 2MB set 1 bios_grub on mkpart 'data-partition' 2MB '100%' parted --script --align optimal /dev/sdb -- mklabel gpt mkpart 'BIOS-boot-partition' 1MB 2MB set 1 bios_grub on mkpart 'data-partition' 2MB '100%' # Relaod partitions partprobe # Wait for all devices to exist udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sda1 udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sda2 udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sdb1 udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sdb2 # Wipe any previous RAID signatures mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sda2 mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sdb2 # Create RAIDs # Note that during creating and boot-time assembly, mdadm cares about the # host name, and the existence and contents of `mdadm.conf`! # This also affects the names appearing in /dev/md/ being different # before and after reboot in general (but we take extra care here # to pass explicit names, and set HOMEHOST for the rebooting system further # down, so that the names appear the same). # Almost all details of this are explained in # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606481#c14 # and the followup comments by Doug Ledford. mdadm --create --run --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --homehost=hetzner --name=root0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 # Assembling the RAID can result in auto-activation of previously-existing LVM # groups, preventing the RAID block device wiping below with # `Device or resource busy`. So disable all VGs first. vgchange -an # Wipe filesystem signatures that might be on the RAID from some # possibly existing older use of the disks (RAID creation does not do that). # See https://serverfault.com/questions/911370/why-does-mdadm-zero-superblock-preserve-file-system-information wipefs -a /dev/md0 # Disable RAID recovery. We don't want this to slow down machine provisioning # in the rescue mode. It can run in normal operation after reboot. echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max # LVM # PVs pvcreate /dev/md0 # VGs vgcreate vg0 /dev/md0 # LVs (--yes to automatically wipe detected file system signatures) lvcreate --yes --extents 95%FREE -n root0 vg0 # 5% slack space # Filesystems (-F to not ask on preexisting FS) mkfs.ext4 -F -L root /dev/mapper/vg0-root0 # Creating file systems changes their UUIDs. # Trigger udev so that the entries in /dev/disk/by-uuid get refreshed. # `nixos-generate-config` depends on those being up-to-date. # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/62444 udevadm trigger # Wait for FS labels to appear udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/disk/by-label/root # NixOS pre-installation mounts # Mount target root partition mount /dev/disk/by-label/root /mnt # Installing nix # Installing nix requires `sudo`; the Hetzner rescue mode doesn't have it. apt-get install -y sudo # Allow installing nix as root, see # https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/936#issuecomment-475795730 mkdir -p /etc/nix echo "build-users-group =" > /etc/nix/nix.conf curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh set +u +x # sourcing this may refer to unset variables that we have no control over . $HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh set -u -x # Keep in sync with `system.stateVersion` set below! # nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-20.03 nixpkgs nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-20.03 nixpkgs nix-channel --update # Getting NixOS installation tools nix-env -iE "_: with import { configuration = {}; }; with config.system.build; [ nixos-generate-config nixos-install nixos-enter manual.manpages ]" nixos-generate-config --root /mnt # Find the name of the network interface that connects us to the Internet. # Inspired by https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14961/how-to-find-out-which-interface-am-i-using-for-connecting-to-the-internet/302613#302613 RESCUE_INTERFACE=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | grep -Po '(?<=dev )(\S+)') # Find what its name will be under NixOS, which uses stable interface names. # See https://major.io/2015/08/21/understanding-systemds-predictable-network-device-names/#comment-545626 # NICs for most Hetzner servers are not onboard, which is why we use # `ID_NET_NAME_PATH`otherwise it would be `ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD`. INTERFACE_DEVICE_PATH=$(udevadm info -e | grep -Po "(?<=^P: )(.*${RESCUE_INTERFACE})") UDEVADM_PROPERTIES_FOR_INTERFACE=$(udevadm info --query=property "--path=$INTERFACE_DEVICE_PATH") NIXOS_INTERFACE=$(echo "$UDEVADM_PROPERTIES_FOR_INTERFACE" | grep -o -E 'ID_NET_NAME_PATH=\w+' | cut -d= -f2) echo "Determined NIXOS_INTERFACE as '$NIXOS_INTERFACE'" IP_V4=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | grep -Po '(?<=src )(\S+)') echo "Determined IP_V4 as $IP_V4" # Determine Internet IPv6 by checking route, and using ::1 # (because Hetzner rescue mode uses ::2 by default). # The `ip -6 route get` output on Hetzner looks like: # # ip -6 route get 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888 # 2001:4860:4860::8888 via fe80::1 dev eth0 src 2a01:4f8:151:62aa::2 metric 1024 pref medium IP_V6="$(ip route get 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888 | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f7 | cut -d: -f1-4)::1" echo "Determined IP_V6 as $IP_V6" # From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204629/how-do-i-get-the-default-gateway-in-linux-given-the-destination/15973156#15973156 read _ _ DEFAULT_GATEWAY _ < <(ip route list match 0/0); echo "$DEFAULT_GATEWAY" echo "Determined DEFAULT_GATEWAY as $DEFAULT_GATEWAY" # Generate `configuration.nix`. Note that we splice in shell variables. cat > /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix <' (using the system hostname). # This results mdadm considering such disks as "foreign" as opposed to # "local", and showing them as e.g. '/dev/md/hetzner:root0' # instead of '/dev/md/root0'. # This is mdadm's protection against accidentally putting a RAID disk # into the wrong machine and corrupting data by accidental sync, see # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606481#c14 and onward. # We set the HOMEHOST manually go get the short '/dev/md' names, # and so that things look and are configured the same on all such # machines irrespective of host names. # We do not worry about plugging disks into the wrong machine because # we will never exchange disks between machines. environment.etc."mdadm.conf".text = '' HOMEHOST hetzner ''; # The RAIDs are assembled in stage1, so we need to make the config # available there. boot.initrd.mdadmConf = config.environment.etc."mdadm.conf".text; # Network (Hetzner uses static IP assignments, and we don't use DHCP here) networking.useDHCP = false; networking.interfaces."$NIXOS_INTERFACE".ipv4.addresses = [ { address = "$IP_V4"; prefixLength = 24; } ]; networking.interfaces."$NIXOS_INTERFACE".ipv6.addresses = [ { address = "$IP_V6"; prefixLength = 64; } ]; networking.defaultGateway = "$DEFAULT_GATEWAY"; networking.defaultGateway6 = { address = "fe80::1"; interface = "$NIXOS_INTERFACE"; }; networking.nameservers = [ "8.8.8.8" ]; # Initial empty root password for easy login: users.users.root.initialHashedPassword = ""; services.openssh.permitRootLogin = "prohibit-password"; users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAtwCIGPYJlD2eeUtxngmT+4yR7BMlK0F5kzj+84uHsxxsy+PXFrP/tScCpwmuoiEYNv/9WKnPJJfCA9XlIDr6cla1MLpaW6eg672TRYMmKzH6SLlkg+kyDmPxSIJw+KdKfnPYyva+Y/VocACYJo0voabUeLAVgtSKGz/AFzccjfOR0GmFO911zjAaR+jFb9M7t7dveNVKm9KbuBfu3giMgGg3/mKz1TKY8yk2ZOxpT5CllBb+B5BcEf+7IGNvNxr1Z0zz5cFXQ3LyBIZklnC/OaQCnD78BSiyPTkIXcmBFal2TaFwTDvki6PuCRpJy+dU1fDdgWLql97D0SVnjmmomw== nh2@deditus.de" ]; services.openssh.enable = true; # This value determines the NixOS release with which your system is to be # compatible, in order to avoid breaking some software such as database # servers. You should change this only after NixOS release notes say you # should. system.stateVersion = "20.03"; # Did you read the comment? } EOF # Install NixOS PATH="$PATH" NIX_PATH="$NIX_PATH" `which nixos-install` --no-root-passwd --root /mnt --max-jobs 40 umount /mnt reboot