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nixos-containers: add docs about nested containers #85746

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@iblech iblech commented Apr 22, 2020

Motivation for this change

Recently I started experimenting with our lightweight containers and was very impressed by how well they work. I'm grateful to all who have worked to bring this feature to light.

I was also pleasantly surprised to notice that nested containers work just fine. However, I fell into a small trap, which this pull request hopefully removes by improving the documentation:

By default, support for containers is disabled for machines which are themselves containers to a host. This default is readily apparent from the source (default = !config.boot.isContainer) but not from the generated documentation (which simply lists Default: true). This pull request adds two short sentences to the documentation, hopefully clarifying the situation.

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
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  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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@ofborg ofborg bot added 6.topic: nixos Issues or PRs affecting NixOS modules, or package usability issues specific to NixOS 8.has: module (update) This PR changes an existing module in `nixos/` 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin 10.rebuild-linux: 1-10 10.rebuild-linux: 1 labels Apr 22, 2020
@Mic92 Mic92 merged commit 6eb1020 into NixOS:master Apr 22, 2020
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ajs124 commented Apr 22, 2020

This default is readily apparent from the source (default = !config.boot.isContainer) but not from the generated documentation (which simply lists Default: true).

Why not just set defaultText?

Also, I'm like 80% sure this broke the nixos-manual-combined build.

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iblech commented Apr 22, 2020

Why not just set defaultText?

Oh, I did not know about defaultText! Thank you for pointing that out. :-)

Also, I'm like 80% sure this broke the nixos-manual-combined build.

How so? I cannot reproduce this error. (I'm using

nix-build ./nixos --arg configuration '{ boot.isContainer = true; documentation.nixos.enable = true; documentation.enable = true; }' -A config.system.build

but am not completely sure that this test is sufficient.)

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ajs124 commented Apr 22, 2020

#85788 fixed it.

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iblech commented Apr 22, 2020

Ah, wow, this community is quick! Thank you for your patience and sorry for my slip.

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nixos/nixos-containers: default boot.enableContainers to true
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Related to NixOS#85746 which addresses documentation issue,
digging deeper for a reason why this was disabled
was simply because it wasn't working which is not the case anymore.
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