wire is a tool to deploy nixos systems. its usage is inspired by colmena however it is not a fork.

Read the The Tutorial, Guides, or continue reading this readme for development information.

Tree Layout#

wire
├── wire
│  ├── lib
│  │  └── Rust library containing business logic, consumed by `wire`
│  ├── cli
│  │  └── Rust binary, using `lib`
│  └── key_agent
│     └── Rust binary ran on a target node. receives key file bytes and metadata w/ protobuf over SSH stdin
├── doc
│  └── a [vitepress](https://vitepress.dev/) site
├── runtime
│  └── Nix files used during runtime to evaluate nodes
├── bench
│  └── A little tool to benchmark wire against a large hive
└──tests
   └── Directories used during cargo & NixOS VM testing

Development#

Please use nix develop for access to the development environment and to ensure your changes are ran against the defined git hooks. For simplicity, you may wish to use direnv.