Basic NixOS System Management things to know about

Signing the packages in the store with a new key

Put the key in /etc/nix/nix.conf similar to this:

secret-key-files = /etc/nix/private-key

then run nix store sign --all to sign all the packages at once.

To be able to remote rebuild, you can then add the public key to the remote computer’s nix.conf

trusted-public-keys = hostname:pubkey

you can get the pubkey by running

nix key convert-secret-to-public < /etc/nix/private-key