refactor: centralize definition of MicroVM node names

flake.nix

@@ -106,15 +106,13 @@
 
       colmena = import ./nix/colmena.nix inputs;
       colmenaNodes = ((colmena.lib.makeHive self.colmena).introspect (x: x)).nodes;
-      microvmNodes =
+      # Collect all defined microvm nodes from each colmena node
-        nixpkgs.lib.concatMapAttrs
+      microvmNodes = nixpkgs.lib.concatMapAttrs (_: node:
-        (nodeName: nodeAttrs:
         nixpkgs.lib.mapAttrs'
-          # TODO This is duplicated three times. This is microvm naming #3
+        (vm: def: nixpkgs.lib.nameValuePair def.nodeName node.config.microvm.vms.${vm})
-          # TODO maybe use microvm.vms.<name>.compoundName
+        (node.config.extra.microvms.vms or {}))
-          (n: nixpkgs.lib.nameValuePair "${nodeName}-${n}")
-          (self.colmenaNodes.${nodeName}.config.microvm.vms or {}))
       self.colmenaNodes;
+      # Expose all nodes in a single attribute
       nodes = self.colmenaNodes // self.microvmNodes;
 
       # Collect installer packages

modules/microvms.nix

@@ -59,14 +59,24 @@
       '';
 
     microvm.vms.${vmName} = let
+      # Loads configuration from a subfolder of this nodes configuration, if it exists.
+      configPath =
+        if nodePath == null
+        then null
+        else nodePath + "/microvms/${vmName}";
+
       node =
         (import ../nix/generate-node.nix inputs)
-        # TODO This is duplicated three times. This is microvm naming #1
+        vmCfg.nodeName
-        "${nodeName}-${vmName}"
         {
           inherit (vmCfg) system;
-          # TODO make this configurable (or even disableable)
+          # Load configPath, if it exists.
-          config = nodePath + "/microvms/${vmName}";
+          ${
+            if configPath != null && builtins.pathExists configPath
+            then "config"
+            else null
+          } =
+            configPath;
         };
       mac = net.mac.addPrivate vmCfg.id cfg.networking.baseMac;
     in {
@@ -292,6 +302,16 @@ in {
         ...
       }: {
         options = {
+          nodeName = mkOption {
+            type = types.str;
+            default = "${nodeName}-${name}";
+            description = mdDoc ''
+              The name of the resulting node. By default this will be a compound name
+              of the host's name and the vm's name to avoid name clashes. Can be
+              overwritten to designate special names to specific vms.
+            '';
+          };
+
           id = mkOption {
             type =
               types.addCheck types.int (x: x > 1)

modules/repo.nix

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     attrNames
     literalExpression
     mapAttrs
+    mdDoc
     mkIf
     mkOption
     types
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ in {
     defineNixExtraBuiltins = mkOption {
       default = false;
       type = types.bool;
-      description = ''
+      description = mdDoc ''
         Add nix-plugins and the correct extra-builtin-files definition to this host's
         nix configuration, so that it can be used to decrypt the secrets in this repository.
       '';
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ in {
       default = {};
       type = types.attrsOf types.path;
       example = literalExpression "{ local = ./secrets.nix.age; }";
-      description = ''
+      description = mdDoc ''
         This file manages the origin for this machine's repository-secrets. Anything that is
         technically not a secret in the classical sense (i.e. that it has to be protected
         after it has been deployed), but something you want to keep secret from the public;