NixOS on Azure

Run NixOS on an Azure Gen 2 VM

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Preparation

1. Set your username in the flake.nix file
2. nix develop
3. run az login and login with your Azure credentials
4. Create an ed25519 SSH key pair

Upload image

./upload-image.sh --resource-group images --image-name nixos-gen2

Create VM

./boot-vm.sh --resource-group vms --image nixos-gen2 --vm-name nixos

SSH into server

ssh <username>@<public_ip>

• username you have set in the flake.nix file
• public IP will be printed with running the boot-vm.sh script

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> neofetch
          ▗▄▄▄       ▗▄▄▄▄    ▄▄▄▖            rudesome@nixos
          ▜███▙       ▜███▙  ▟███▛            --------------
           ▜███▙       ▜███▙▟███▛             OS: NixOS 25.11pre-git (Xantusia) x86_64
            ▜███▙       ▜██████▛              Host: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine
     ▟█████████████████▙ ▜████▛     ▟▙        Kernel: 6.12.30
    ▟███████████████████▙ ▜███▙    ▟██▙       Uptime: 1 min
           ▄▄▄▄▖           ▜███▙  ▟███▛       Packages: 348 (nix-system), 330 (nix-user)
          ▟███▛             ▜██▛ ▟███▛        Shell: zsh 5.9
         ▟███▛               ▜▛ ▟███▛         Resolution: 1024x768
▟███████████▛                  ▟██████████▙   Terminal: /dev/pts/0
▜██████████▛                  ▟███████████▛   CPU: Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL (1) @ 2.593GHz
      ▟███▛ ▟▙               ▟███▛            Memory: 629MiB / 3415MiB
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Credits

Society for the Blind

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