AWS tutorial is horribly out of date. uses 20.09 AMI
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Description
Observations
The AWS tutorial at https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/deploying-nixos-using-terraform.html uses
module "nixos_image" {
source = "git::https://github.com/tweag/terraform-nixos.git//aws_image_nixos?ref=5f5a0408b299874d6a29d1271e9bffeee4c9ca71"
release = "20.09"
}
to boot an image
Problem
This is terribly out of date. We should not have people boot a 5 year old image in our tutorials.
Approaches
Please update the tutorial to follow the official documentation: http://nixos.org/download/#nixos-amazon
Willing to help?
Maybe
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open the AWS tutorial at nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/deploying-nixos-using-terraform.html and compare its Terraform example with the official NixOS Amazon documentation at nixos.org/download/#nixos-amazon. Update the tutorial so it no longer boots the 20.09 image and follows the current official guidance; it is done when the example is no longer outdated.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, terraform
- Domain
- cloud, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- Half a day
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100