Example for extending the flake module

[sagikazarmark]

I'm trying to add custom features to the flake module that would help with some deduplication across a few environments:

{
    tools.kubectl.enable = true;
    tools.helm.enable = true;
}

I'm also using flake-parts.

Can someone point me in a direction for extending the devenvType?

[domenkozar]

@roberth maybe you can help here, how can additional devenv modules be specified?

[sagikazarmark]

After staring at the code for quite some time, I believe the only way I could achieve this is by adding modules here somehow:

devenv/flake-module.nix

Line 7 in cae4522

modules = [{

I'm not sure how I could do that though.

@roberth any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[thenonameguy]

All NixOS modules can be extended further with the 'imports' key (array of files containing modules).

Have you tried doing that already?

[sagikazarmark]

@thenonameguy I haven't, but the challenge I see is that I don't want to extend the flake-parts module, I want to extend devenv directly. It's possible I'm missing something obvious though.

[roberth]

Not sure exactly in which way you want to extend it, but here's one:

• doc, examples: flake-parts imports #720

I think that's what @thenonameguy wanted to suggest.

If the import needs to reference another repo, I could write something for the case where both repos are flake based. Otherwise I have to ask:

@domenkozar Can devenv.yaml import a devenv module from a flake attribute?

[sagikazarmark]

Thanks @roberth , I believe that's exactly what I was looking for.

If the import needs to reference another repo, I could write something for the case where both repos are flake based.

In my case, I'd like to reuse a set of modules across a number of repos, so yeah, I'm thinking something like this:

{
  inputs = {
    # ...
  }

  outputs = inputs@{ ... }: {
    devenvModules = {
      default = {};
    };
  }
}

And then import that module in a shell.

Let me give this a try and get back to you.

[domenkozar]

Does that work? :)

[sagikazarmark]

It does: https://github.com/sagikazarmark/xdevenv