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alexion ab9b9e9f8f feat(guests): bind-mount host pool paths into guests
Add a `mounts` placement option to the guest builder: a Host maps guest
interior paths to host paths, each read-write by default or read-only per
mount, realized as the nested container's bind mounts. A guest sees exactly the
data it should, at any granularity from a single folder to a whole pool.

Pin the container to the host's uid and gid space with `privateUsers = "no"`,
so a guest process writing as the shared storage group lands on a bind-mounted
pool as that same group without permission juggling.
2026-07-25 17:53:14 -04:00

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Nix

{
lib,
inputs,
self,
}:
let
inherit (lib)
attrNames
filterAttrs
genAttrs
flatten
hasSuffix
mapAttrsToList
;
# Recursively collect every `.nix` file under `dir` as a flat list, for a
# module's `imports`.
collectNixFiles =
dir:
flatten (
mapAttrsToList (
name: type:
let
path = dir + "/${name}";
in
if type == "directory" then
collectNixFiles path
else if type == "regular" && hasSuffix ".nix" name then
[ path ]
else
[ ]
) (builtins.readDir dir)
);
# The special arguments every configuration is evaluated with, host and guest
# interior alike.
specialArgs = {
inherit inputs;
my = self.lib;
};
# The name of a tagged VLAN's bridge, kept here as the one definition of a
# convention shared across the flake.
bridgeName = id: "br-vlan${toString id}";
# A guest with no operator-set MAC derives a stable one from its namespace path.
# The first octet 02 marks the address locally-administered and unicast.
# The rest is a slice of the path's hash.
# The same guest therefore always lands on the same address, which the operator can reserve at the router.
deriveMac =
name:
let
hash = builtins.hashString "sha256" name;
octet = i: builtins.substring (i * 2) 2 hash;
in
lib.concatStringsSep ":" ([ "02" ] ++ map octet [ 0 1 2 3 4 ]);
# Build one host: every module and every guest is imported unconditionally
# (inert until its `enable` flag is set), alongside chaotic, the host base,
# and the host's own directory.
mkHost =
{
hostName,
system ? "x86_64-linux",
}:
inputs.nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
inherit system specialArgs;
modules =
(collectNixFiles (self + "/modules"))
++ (collectNixFiles (self + "/guests"))
++ [
inputs.chaotic.nixosModules.default
inputs.disko.nixosModules.disko
inputs.sops-nix.nixosModules.sops
inputs.stylix.nixosModules.stylix
(self + "/system.nix")
(self + "/hosts/${hostName}")
{ networking.hostName = hostName; }
];
};
# Build a guest: a module-shaped definition whose body realizes its interior
# as a nested container standing on the guest-base, keyed by its namespace path.
# `name` is the dotted namespace under `guests.` and `interior` is an extra
# module merged into the container alongside the guest-base.
guest =
{
name,
interior ? { },
}:
{ config, lib, ... }:
let
optionPath = [ "guests" ] ++ lib.splitString "." name;
cfg = lib.getAttrFromPath optionPath config;
machineName = lib.replaceStrings [ "." ] [ "-" ] name;
networked = cfg.vlan != null;
# A networked guest owns its bridged interface through its own networkd, the only stable MAC pin for a nested container.
# The interface is eth0, the name a nested container gives its bridged veth.
# It takes the placement MAC, and the static address or DHCP when that is unset.
guestNet =
{ lib, ... }:
{
config = lib.mkIf networked {
networking.useNetworkd = true;
systemd.network.networks."20-eth0" = {
matchConfig.Name = "eth0";
linkConfig.MACAddress = cfg.mac;
networkConfig = lib.mkIf (cfg.address == null) { DHCP = "yes"; };
address = lib.mkIf (cfg.address != null) [ cfg.address ];
};
};
};
in
{
options = lib.setAttrByPath optionPath {
enable = lib.mkEnableOption "the ${name} guest, run in its own nested container";
backend = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.enum [
"container"
"microvm"
];
default = "container";
description = ''
How the guest is realized. `container` runs the guest as a
systemd-nspawn nested container. `microvm` is reserved for a future
hard-isolation backend and is not built yet.
'';
};
vlan = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.nullOr (lib.types.ints.between 1 4094);
default = null;
example = 10;
description = ''
The tagged VLAN this guest lives on. The guest attaches to its host's
`br-vlan<id>` bridge for that VLAN. Left null, the guest keeps a
private network with no bridge attachment. The id must be one of the
host's `modules.network.vlans`.
'';
};
mac = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.str;
default = deriveMac name;
defaultText = lib.literalMD "a stable address derived from the guest's namespace path";
example = "bc:24:11:00:00:01";
description = ''
The guest's MAC address on its VLAN, pinned inside the guest by its
own networkd. Set it to reuse an existing address so a router's DHCP
reservation keeps working. Left unset, a stable address is derived
from the guest's namespace path in the locally-administered range.
'';
};
address = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.nullOr lib.types.str;
default = null;
example = "10.0.10.5/24";
description = ''
The guest's static address, in CIDR form, on its VLAN. Left null, the
guest takes its address by DHCP, keeping IP management at the router.
'';
};
mounts = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.attrsOf (
lib.types.submodule {
options = {
hostPath = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.str;
example = "/srv/media";
description = "The path on the host bind-mounted into the guest.";
};
readOnly = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.bool;
default = false;
description = ''
Mount the path read-only. Read-write by default, since a
service must write to the pool data it owns.
'';
};
};
}
);
default = { };
example = lib.literalExpression ''
{
"/data/media" = { hostPath = "/srv/media"; };
"/data/config" = {
hostPath = "/srv/config/jellyfin";
readOnly = true;
};
}
'';
description = ''
Host paths bind-mounted into the guest, keyed by the path they appear
at inside the guest, so a guest sees exactly the data it should at any
granularity a single folder or a whole pool. Each mount is
read-write unless `readOnly` is set.
'';
};
};
config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
assertions = [
{
assertion = cfg.backend == "container";
message = ''
guests.${name}.backend = "${cfg.backend}" is not implemented. Only the "container" backend is built; "microvm" is reserved for future work.
'';
}
{
assertion = !networked || lib.elem cfg.vlan config.modules.network.vlans;
message = ''
guests.${name}.vlan = ${toString cfg.vlan} is not among its host's modules.network.vlans (${lib.concatMapStringsSep ", " toString config.modules.network.vlans}). Declare the VLAN on the host or correct the guest's placement.
'';
}
];
containers.${machineName} = lib.mkIf (cfg.backend == "container") {
autoStart = lib.mkDefault true;
# The guest gets its own network namespace, so its services — its own
# sshd included — never contend with the host's.
privateNetwork = lib.mkDefault true;
# A networked guest's veth is enslaved to the VLAN's bridge, making it
# a first-class L2 citizen on that segment.
hostBridge = lib.mkIf networked (bridgeName cfg.vlan);
# The container shares the host's uid and gid space one to one.
# A guest process writing as the shared storage group then lands on a bind-mounted pool as that same group, with no permission juggling.
# A private-user mapping would shift the ids and reintroduce those errors, so it stays off.
privateUsers = lib.mkDefault "no";
bindMounts = lib.mapAttrs (_guestPath: m: {
inherit (m) hostPath;
isReadOnly = m.readOnly;
}) cfg.mounts;
inherit specialArgs;
config = {
imports = [
(self + "/guest.nix")
guestNet
interior
];
};
};
};
};
# Discover every host (a subdirectory of `hostsDir`) and build each one.
mkHosts =
hostsDir:
let
hostNames = attrNames (filterAttrs (_name: type: type == "directory") (builtins.readDir hostsDir));
in
genAttrs hostNames (hostName: mkHost { inherit hostName; });
in
{
inherit
collectNixFiles
mkHost
mkHosts
guest
bridgeName
;
}