feat(jeeves): share one system closure across builders
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Reuse a single NixOS container build for all runners while preserving
unique runtime hostnames and existing Gitea registrations.
This commit is contained in:
2026-09-08 19:32:39 -04:00
parent 3aa66c48af
commit f8dfe7e05b
2 changed files with 154 additions and 89 deletions
+118 -89
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@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
{ {
config, config,
lib, lib,
outputs, pkgs,
utils,
... ...
}: }:
@@ -12,6 +11,121 @@ let
cfg = config.services.nix_builder; cfg = config.services.nix_builder;
runnerUsername = "gitea-runner"; runnerUsername = "gitea-runner";
runnerUserid = 601; runnerUserid = 601;
runnerLabels = [
"self-hosted:host"
"nixos:host"
];
containerConfig =
{
config,
pkgs,
lib,
...
}:
let
runnerConfigFile = (pkgs.formats.yaml { }).generate "gitea-runner.yaml" { };
registerRunner = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
name = "register-gitea-runner";
runtimeInputs = [
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.hostname
config.services.gitea-actions-runner.package
];
text = builtins.readFile ./register_gitea_runner.sh;
};
in
{
networking = {
hostName = "nix-builder";
useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
interfaces.eth0.useDHCP = true;
# Ensure containers don't inherit the host's stub resolver (127.0.0.53) which was causing issues
useHostResolvConf = false;
};
nix.settings = {
system-features = lib.mkAfter [
"gccarch-x86-64-v2"
"gccarch-x86-64-v3"
];
trusted-substituters = [
"https://cache.nixos.org"
"https://cache.tmmworkshop.com"
"https://nix-community.cachix.org"
];
substituters = [
"https://cache.nixos.org/?priority=2&want-mass-query=true"
"https://cache.tmmworkshop.com/?priority=2&want-mass-query=true"
"https://nix-community.cachix.org/?priority=10&want-mass-query=true"
];
trusted-public-keys = [
"cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
"cache.tmmworkshop.com:jHffkpgbmEdstQPoihJPYW9TQe6jnQbWR2LqkNGV3iA="
"nix-community.cachix.org-1:mB9FSh9qf2dCimDSUo8Zy7bkq5CX+/rkCWyvRCYg3Fs="
];
experimental-features = [
"flakes"
"nix-command"
];
sandbox = true;
allowed-users = [ runnerUsername ];
trusted-users = [
"root"
runnerUsername
];
};
users = {
users.${runnerUsername} = {
isSystemUser = true;
group = runnerUsername;
uid = runnerUserid;
};
groups.${runnerUsername}.gid = runnerUserid;
};
services.gitea-actions-runner.instances.builder = {
enable = true;
name = "jeeves-nix-builder";
url = "http://192.168.99.14:6443/";
labels = runnerLabels;
tokenFile = "/run/secrets/gitea-runners/registration-token";
hostPackages = with pkgs; [
bash
coreutils
curl
gawk
gitMinimal
gnused
my_python
nix
nixfmt
nixos-rebuild
nodejs
treefmt
wget
];
};
systemd.services."gitea-runner-builder" = {
serviceConfig = {
DynamicUser = mkForce false;
User = mkForce runnerUsername;
Group = mkForce runnerUsername;
ExecStartPre = mkForce [
"${getExe registerRunner} builder http://192.168.99.14:6443/ ${runnerConfigFile} ${escapeShellArgs runnerLabels}"
];
};
};
system.stateVersion = "24.05";
};
sharedContainerPath =
(import "${pkgs.path}/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix" {
modules = [
{
boot.isNspawnContainer = true;
nixpkgs.pkgs = pkgs;
}
containerConfig
];
system = null;
}).config.system.build.toplevel;
in in
{ {
options.services.nix_builder = { options.services.nix_builder = {
@@ -48,9 +162,11 @@ in
containers = mapAttrs ( containers = mapAttrs (
name: containerCfg: name: containerCfg:
mkIf containerCfg.enable { mkIf containerCfg.enable {
path = sharedContainerPath;
autoStart = true; autoStart = true;
privateNetwork = true; privateNetwork = true;
hostBridge = cfg.bridgeName; hostBridge = cfg.bridgeName;
extraFlags = [ "--hostname=${name}" ];
bindMounts = { bindMounts = {
host-nix = { host-nix = {
mountPoint = "/host-nix/var/nix/daemon-socket"; mountPoint = "/host-nix/var/nix/daemon-socket";
@@ -68,93 +184,6 @@ in
isReadOnly = false; isReadOnly = false;
}; };
}; };
config =
{
config,
pkgs,
lib,
...
}:
{
networking = {
useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
interfaces.eth0.useDHCP = true;
# Ensure containers don't inherit the host's stub resolver (127.0.0.53) which was causing issues
useHostResolvConf = false;
};
nix.settings = {
trusted-substituters = [
"https://cache.nixos.org"
"https://cache.tmmworkshop.com"
"https://nix-community.cachix.org"
];
substituters = [
"https://cache.nixos.org/?priority=2&want-mass-query=true"
"https://cache.tmmworkshop.com/?priority=2&want-mass-query=true"
"https://nix-community.cachix.org/?priority=10&want-mass-query=true"
];
trusted-public-keys = [
"cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
"cache.tmmworkshop.com:jHffkpgbmEdstQPoihJPYW9TQe6jnQbWR2LqkNGV3iA="
"nix-community.cachix.org-1:mB9FSh9qf2dCimDSUo8Zy7bkq5CX+/rkCWyvRCYg3Fs="
];
experimental-features = [
"flakes"
"nix-command"
];
sandbox = true;
allowed-users = [ "gitea-runner" ];
trusted-users = [
"root"
"gitea-runner"
];
};
nixpkgs = {
overlays = builtins.attrValues outputs.overlays;
config.allowUnfree = true;
};
users = {
users.${runnerUsername} = {
isSystemUser = true;
group = runnerUsername;
uid = runnerUserid;
};
groups.${runnerUsername}.gid = runnerUserid;
};
services.gitea-actions-runner.instances.${name} = {
enable = true;
name = "jeeves-${name}";
url = "http://192.168.99.14:6443/";
labels = [
"self-hosted:host"
"nixos:host"
];
tokenFile = "/run/secrets/gitea-runners/registration-token";
hostPackages = with pkgs; [
bash
coreutils
curl
gawk
gitMinimal
gnused
my_python
nix
nixfmt
nixos-rebuild
nodejs
treefmt
wget
];
};
systemd.services."gitea-runner-${utils.escapeSystemdPath name}" = {
serviceConfig = {
DynamicUser = mkForce false;
User = mkForce runnerUsername;
Group = mkForce runnerUsername;
};
};
system.stateVersion = "24.05";
};
} }
) cfg.containers; ) cfg.containers;
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
legacy_instance_dir="$STATE_DIRECTORY/$(hostname)"
instance_dir="$STATE_DIRECTORY/$1"
runner_url="$2"
runner_config_file="$3"
shift 3
runner_labels="$(IFS=,; printf '%s' "$*")"
if [ ! -e "$instance_dir" ] && [ -d "$legacy_instance_dir" ]; then
mv "$legacy_instance_dir" "$instance_dir"
fi
mkdir -vp "$instance_dir"
cd "$instance_dir" || exit 1
token_hash_file="$instance_dir/.token-hash"
token_hash_current="$(printf '%s' "$TOKEN" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)"
token_hash_stored="$(cat "$token_hash_file" 2>/dev/null || echo "")"
labels_file="$instance_dir/.labels"
labels_wanted="$(printf '%s\n' "$@" | sort)"
labels_current="$(cat "$labels_file" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)"
if [ ! -e "$instance_dir/.runner" ] || [ "$labels_wanted" != "$labels_current" ] || [ "$token_hash_current" != "$token_hash_stored" ]; then
rm -v "$instance_dir/.runner" || true
gitea-runner register --no-interactive \
--instance "$runner_url" \
--token "$TOKEN" \
--name "jeeves-$(hostname)" \
--labels "$runner_labels" \
--config "$runner_config_file"
printf '%s' "$token_hash_current" > "$token_hash_file"
printf '%s\n' "$labels_wanted" > "$labels_file"
fi