Nest is my personal Linux distribution based on Gentoo. You can learn more about it at james.tl.
This Puppet module defines almost all of the behavior for the distribution. As a personal operating system, this module is subject to change frequently and it is not worth documenting in detail; but if you are interested in browsing the code, it may help you to know about the structure.
Where many integration-level Puppet modules implement a kind of roles and profiles pattern which works well for small enterprises, this module implements my own roles and platforms pattern which, I think, maps onto the needs of an individual computer user in a more expressive way. For example, the current environment understands the following roles and platforms:
| Platform | Role |
|---|---|
| generic | server |
| beagleboneblack | workstation |
| pine64 | |
| pinebookpro | |
| raspberrypi4 | |
| rock5 | |
| rockpro64 | |
| sopine |
So you can build a "raspberrypi workstation" or a "beagleboneblack server" or any other combination. These roles and platforms sit on top of a more generic understanding of architecture such that configurations can be defined separately for, e.g., ARM and different ARM platforms.
Beyond that, this module contains classes for a small set of services that can be applied to virtually any combination of role and platform.
This module is also a Bolt project. It is maintained with PDK.