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Nix Installer Action

You can use nix-installer as a Github action like so:

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  lints:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Install Nix
        uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
      - name: Run `nix build`
        run: nix build .

See .github/workflows/ci.yml for a full example.

Configuration

Parameter Description Type Default
backtrace The setting for RUST_BACKTRACE string
extra-args Extra arguments to pass to the planner (prefer using structured with: arguments unless using a custom planner!) string
extra-conf Extra configuration lines for /etc/nix.conf (includes access-tokens with secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN automatically if github-token is set) string
github-token A GitHub token for making authenticated requests (which have a higher rate-limit quota than unauthenticated requests) string ${{ github.token }}
init The init system to configure (requires planner: linux-multi) enum (none or systemd)
local-root A local nix-installer binary root. Overrides the nix-installer-url setting (a nix-installer.sh should exist, binaries should be named nix-installer-$ARCH, eg. nix-installer-x86_64-linux). Boolean false
log-directives A list of tracing directives, comma separated with -s replaced with _ (eg. nix_installer=trace) string
logger The logger to use during installation enum (pretty, json, full, compact)
mac-case-sensitive Use a case-sensitive volume (planner: macos only) Boolean false
mac-encrypt Force encryption on the volume (planner: macos only) Boolean false
mac-root-disk The root disk of the target (planner: macos only) string
mac-volume-label The label for the created APFS volume (planner: macos only) string
modify-profile Modify the user profile to automatically load Nix Boolean false
nix-build-group-id The Nix build group GID integer
nix-build-group-name The Nix build group name string
nix-build-user-base The Nix build user base UID (ascending) integer
nix-build-user-prefix The Nix build user prefix (user numbers will be postfixed) string
nix-installer-branch The branch of nix-installer to use (conflicts with the nix-installer-tag, nix-installer-revision, and nix-installer-branch) string
nix-installer-pr The pull request of nix-installer to use (conflicts with nix-installer-tag, nix-installer-revision, and nix-installer-branch) integer
nix-installer-revision The revision of nix-installer to use (conflicts with nix-installer-tag, nix-installer-branch, and nix-installer-pr) string
nix-installer-tag The tag of nix-installer to use (conflicts with nix-installer-revision, nix-installer-branch, nix-installer-pr) string
nix-installer-url A URL pointing to a nix-installer.sh script URL https://install.determinate.systems/nix
nix-package-url The Nix package URL URL
planner The installation planner to use enum (linux-multi or macos)
reinstall Force a reinstall if an existing installation is detected (consider backing up /nix/store) Boolean false
start-daemon If the daemon should be started, requires planner: linux-multi Boolean false
trust-runner-user Whether to make the runner user trusted by the Nix daemon Boolean true