nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/development/livebook.nix
Philip Munksgaard 897d5670a3
livebook: Use mix release to build instead of escript
The current build of livebook does not work with the new [Livebook
Teams](https://livebook.dev/teams/) features. The problem can be observed by
running the current version of livebook, adding a new team and going to the team
page. The process will crash and the team page will show a 500 error.

The base of the problem is that the escript build method is not officially
supported. This commit changes the livebook package to use the `mix release`
workflow, which is also the one used to build the official Docker container.

Unfortunately, the binary built with `mix release` does not support command line
arguments like the `escript` binary does. Instead, users need to pass in most of
the configuration as environment variables, as documented
[here](https://hexdocs.pm/livebook/readme.html#environment-variables). As a
result, this commit also changes the Livebook service to reflect this new way of
configuring Livebook.

Finally, the Livebook release configuration specifically excludes the
ERTS (Erlang Runtime System), which means that the resulting release cannot run
without Erlang installed.

I have tested the results (both of the package and the service) locally.
2024-01-26 20:19:46 +01:00

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{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.services.livebook;
in
{
options.services.livebook = {
# Since livebook doesn't have a granular permission system (a user
# either has access to all the data or none at all), the decision
# was made to run this as a user service. If that changes in the
# future, this can be changed to a system service.
enableUserService = mkEnableOption "a user service for Livebook";
package = mkPackageOption pkgs "livebook" { };
environment = mkOption {
type = with types; attrsOf (nullOr (oneOf [ bool int str ]));
default = { };
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Environment variables to set.
Livebook is configured through the use of environment variables. The
available configuration options can be found in the [Livebook
documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/livebook/readme.html#environment-variables).
Note that all environment variables set through this configuration
parameter will be readable by anyone with access to the host
machine. Therefore, sensitive information like {env}`LIVEBOOK_PASSWORD`
or {env}`LIVEBOOK_COOKIE` should never be set using this configuration
option, but should instead use
[](#opt-services.livebook.environmentFile). See the documentation for
that option for more information.
Any environment variables specified in the
[](#opt-services.livebook.environmentFile) will supersede environment
variables specified in this option.
'';
example = literalExpression ''
{
LIVEBOOK_PORT = 8080;
}
'';
};
environmentFile = mkOption {
type = with types; nullOr types.path;
default = null;
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Additional dnvironment file as defined in {manpage}`systemd.exec(5)`.
Secrets like {env}`LIVEBOOK_PASSWORD` (which is used to specify the
password needed to access the livebook site) or {env}`LIVEBOOK_COOKIE`
(which is used to specify the
[cookie](https://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/distributed.html#security)
used to connect to the running Elixir system) may be passed to the
service without making them readable to everyone with access to
systemctl by using this configuration parameter.
Note that this file needs to be available on the host on which
`livebook` is running.
For security purposes, this file should contain at least
{env}`LIVEBOOK_PASSWORD` or {env}`LIVEBOOK_TOKEN_ENABLED=false`.
See the [Livebook
documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/livebook/readme.html#environment-variables)
and the [](#opt-services.livebook.environment) configuration parameter
for further options.
'';
example = "/var/lib/livebook.env";
};
extraPackages = mkOption {
type = with types; listOf package;
default = [ ];
description = lib.mdDoc ''
Extra packages to make available to the Livebook service.
'';
example = literalExpression "with pkgs; [ gcc gnumake ]";
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enableUserService {
systemd.user.services.livebook = {
serviceConfig = {
Restart = "always";
EnvironmentFile = cfg.environmentFile;
ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/bin/livebook start";
};
environment = mapAttrs (name: value:
if isBool value then boolToString value else toString value)
cfg.environment;
path = [ pkgs.bash ] ++ cfg.extraPackages;
wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
};
};
meta.doc = ./livebook.md;
}