NixOS - Knossos

My test system.

Goals

• Learn NixOS.
• Attempt to make basic media homelab, a la Yunohost¹...but declarative, reproducable
• Try to avoid Docker
• No flakes (hard to deal with channels)

Tasks

• ZFS for root file system (removed because I didn't want to deal with initrd and wifi)
• Tailscale
• VPS Caddy reverse proxy --> NixOS machine
• Setup Jellyfin
• Setup calibre-web
• Setup Transmission
• Setup Nextcloud
• Setup systemwide auth system - LDAP? OAuth? OR don't do this

System Information

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           ▜███▙       ▜███▙▟███▛              OS: NixOS 25.11 (Xantusia) x86_64
            ▜███▙       ▜██████▛               Host: 10115 (IdeaCenter Q190)
     ▟█████████████████▙ ▜████▛     ▟▙         Kernel: Linux 6.12.63
    ▟███████████████████▙ ▜███▙    ▟██▙        Uptime: 65 days, 10 hours, 42 mins
           ▄▄▄▄▖           ▜███▙  ▟███▛        Packages: 696 (nix-system)
          ▟███▛             ▜██▛ ▟███▛         Shell: bash 5.3.3
         ▟███▛               ▜▛ ▟███▛          Terminal: /dev/pts/0
▟███████████▛                  ▟██████████▙    CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2365M (4) @ 1.40 GHz
▜██████████▛                  ▟███████████▛    GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Gr]
      ▟███▛ ▟▙               ▟███▛             Memory: 1.63 GiB / 7.66 GiB (21%)
     ▟███▛ ▟██▙             ▟███▛              Swap: 239.83 MiB / 8.80 GiB (3%)
    ▟███▛  ▜███▙           ▝▀▀▀▀               Disk (/): 609.95 GiB / 907.15 GiB (67%) - ext4
    ▜██▛    ▜███▙ ▜██████████████████▛         Disk (/mnt/plakias): 757.22 GiB / 2.10 TiB (35%) - zfs
     ▜▛     ▟████▙ ▜████████████████▛          Local IP (wlp3s0): 192.168.107.83/24
           ▟██████▙       ▜███▙                Locale: en_US.UTF-8
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Future Checklist when Moving to New Server

When I do eventually make a new server, or this server needs a whole reinstall. What steps will I need to do? Future Server Checklist

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1. No shade on Yunohost. It's a great project and got me into self-hosting. I just want to see if I can spread my wings and fly. Setting up a new Debian server from scratch is kinda annoying. I'd rather not do that again. ↩︎