Install NixOS on GCE: Difference between revisions
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NOTE: as of March 2020 this page is not accurate and many changes have taken place | NOTE: as of March 2020 this page is not accurate and many changes have taken place | ||
in NixOS and in GCE. There may be useful information here but following the instructions | in NixOS and in GCE. There may be useful information here but following the instructions | ||
will not lead to a happy running VM instance on GCE. Hopefully someone can figure out | will not lead to a happy running VM instance on GCE. Hopefully someone can figure out | ||
how to fix it because there are updates in the source code. | how to fix it because there are updates in the source code. You may want to use [https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators nixos-generators] to create google cloud images. | ||
You may want to use [https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators nixos-generators] to create google cloud images. | |||
This is a recipe for creating a NixOS machine on Google Compute Engine (GCE) which is part of [https://cloud.google.com/ Google Cloud Platform]. This tutorial assumes you have already set up and account and project under Google Cloud Platform. | This is a recipe for creating a NixOS machine on Google Compute Engine (GCE) which is part of [https://cloud.google.com/ Google Cloud Platform]. This tutorial assumes you have already set up and account and project under Google Cloud Platform. | ||