fix: distributed-config now works across microvms and colmena nodes

hosts/ward/microvms/grafana/default.nix

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
   };
 
   nodes.sentinel.age.secrets.loki-basic-auth-hashes.generator.dependencies = [
-  aaa not wokring
     config.age.secrets.grafana-loki-basic-auth-password
   ];
 

modules/distributed-config.nix

@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
     (lib)
     attrNames
     concatMap
+    elem
     filter
     mdDoc
     mkOption
+    mkOptionType
+    optionalAttrs
     types
-    unique
-    subtractLists
     ;
 
   inherit
@@ -24,24 +25,24 @@
     ;
 in {
   options.nodes = mkOption {
-    type = types.attrsOf types.unspecified;
+    type = types.attrsOf (mkOptionType {
+      name = "Toplevel NixOS config";
+      merge = loc: map (x: x.value);
+    });
     default = {};
     description = mdDoc "Allows extending the configuration of other machines.";
   };
 
   config = let
+    isColmenaNode = elem nodeName (attrNames colmenaNodes);
     otherNodes = filter (n: n != nodeName) (attrNames colmenaNodes);
-    foreignConfigs = map (n: colmenaNodes.${n}.config.nodes.${nodeName} or {}) otherNodes;
+    foreignConfigs = concatMap (n: colmenaNodes.${n}.config.nodes.${nodeName} or []) otherNodes;
     toplevelAttrs = ["age" "networking" "systemd" "services"];
   in
-    todo wrong, currently extension FROM microvms is not possible
-    {
-      assertions =
-        map (n: {
-          assertion = false;
-          message = "Cannot extend configuration using nodes.${n} because the given node is not a registered or not a first-class nixos node (microvm's can't be extended right now).";
-        })
-        (subtractLists (attrNames colmenaNodes) (attrNames config.nodes));
-    }
-    // mergeToplevelConfigs toplevelAttrs foreignConfigs;
+    optionalAttrs isColmenaNode (mergeToplevelConfigs toplevelAttrs (
+      foreignConfigs
+      # Also allow extending ourselves, in case some attributes from depenent
+      # configurations such as containers or microvms are merged to the host
+      ++ [config.nodes.${nodeName} or {}]
+    ));
 }

modules/microvms.nix

@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
         };
       };
 
+    # Propagate node expansions, since doing this directly in the
+    # distributed-config module would cause infinite recursion.
+    nodes = mkMerge config.microvm.vms.${vmName}.config.options.nodes.definitions;
+
     microvm.vms.${vmName} = let
       node = import ../nix/generate-node.nix inputs vmCfg.nodeName {
         inherit (vmCfg) system configPath;
@@ -360,6 +364,6 @@ in {
         ipv6 = net.cidr.host 1 cfg.networking.wireguard.cidrv6;
       };
     }
-    // extraLib.mergeToplevelConfigs ["disko" "microvm" "systemd"] (mapAttrsToList microvmConfig vms)
+    // extraLib.mergeToplevelConfigs ["nodes" "disko" "microvm" "systemd"] (mapAttrsToList microvmConfig vms)
   );
 }