In this tutorial, we will go through the steps required to install HomeBox on NixOS Latest. HomeBox is an open-source web application that allows you to quickly and easily run multiple Docker containers on a single server. It also provides a simple, user-friendly web interface for managing your containers.
Before we begin, make sure that you have a NixOS Latest server up and running. If you haven't already installed NixOS, please refer to the official documentation for instructions.
HomeBox is hosted on GitHub, so the first thing we need to do is install Git so we can clone the repository.
Run the following command to install Git:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git
Now that Git is installed, let's clone the HomeBox repository. Run the following command to clone the repository into a directory called homebox
:
git clone https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox.git homebox
HomeBox requires specific software packages to be installed on your server. We can achieve this through a system-wide profile passed to NixOS.
Navigate to the directory containing your NixOS configuration files:
cd /etc/nixos/
Create a file called homebox.nix
:
sudo touch homebox.nix
Edit the file and add the following:
{ pkgs, ... }:
let
homebox = pkgs.callPackage /path/to/homebox { };
in {
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
homebox.postgresql
homebox.redis
];
}
Make sure to replace /path/to/homebox
with the actual path to the directory where you cloned the HomeBox repository. This will create a system-wide profile that installs the necessary packages for HomeBox.
Now that we have created the HomeBox profile, we need to enable it in our NixOS configuration.
Edit your NixOS configuration file:
sudo nano configuration.nix
Add the following line to the imports
section:
imports = [ ./homebox.nix ];
Save and close the file.
HomeBox comes with a configuration file located at /etc/nixos/homebox.nix
. Open this file and configure the settings to your liking.
Finally, we need to build and activate the HomeBox configuration on our NixOS server.
Run the following command:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
This will build and activate the new configuration, enabling HomeBox on your server.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed HomeBox on NixOS Latest! You can now access the HomeBox web interface by navigating to http://your-server-ip:8999
in your web browser.
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