Add NixOS configuration for ringtail workstation

Scaffolds a NixOS flake for ringtail (gaming/compute workstation, RTX 4080):
- Declarative disk partitioning via disko (GPT, EFI + ext4 on NVMe)
- NVIDIA proprietary drivers with CUDA support
- Sway/Wayland desktop with greetd, PipeWire audio, Steam
- Tailscale for tailnet connectivity
- Ansible playbook + mise task for ongoing provisioning via nixos-rebuild
- Pulumi auth key for tailnet bootstrap (tag:homelab, tag:blumeops)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ansible/inventory/hosts.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ all:
       hosts:
         indri:
           ansible_host: indri
+        ringtail:
+          ansible_host: ringtail
+          ansible_user: eblume
     workstations:
       hosts:
         gilbert:

ansible/playbooks/ringtail.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+- name: Configure ringtail (NixOS)
+  hosts: ringtail
+  become: true
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Ensure blumeops repo is present
+      ansible.builtin.git:
+        repo: "https://forge.ops.eblu.me/eblume/blumeops.git"
+        dest: /etc/blumeops
+        version: main
+      register: _repo
+
+    - name: Rebuild NixOS
+      ansible.builtin.command:
+        cmd: nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/blumeops/nixos/ringtail#ringtail
+      register: _rebuild
+      changed_when: "'activating the configuration' in _rebuild.stdout"
+      when: _repo.changed
+
+    - name: Verify tailscale is connected
+      ansible.builtin.command: tailscale status --self --json
+      register: _ts_status
+      changed_when: false
+      failed_when: "'Running' not in _ts_status.stdout"

docs/changelog.d/feature-ringtail-nixos.feature.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add NixOS configuration for ringtail (gaming/compute workstation with RTX 4080). Includes declarative disk partitioning via disko, NVIDIA drivers, sway/Wayland desktop, Steam, Tailscale, and Ansible-driven provisioning.

mise-tasks/provision-ringtail

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#MISE description="Run ansible playbook to provision ringtail (NixOS)"
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+export MISE_TASK_OUTPUT=interleave
+
+cd ansible
+ansible-playbook playbooks/ringtail.yml "$@"

nixos/ringtail/configuration.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  # Bootloader
+  boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
+  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
+
+  # Networking
+  networking.hostName = "ringtail";
+  networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
+
+  # Time zone
+  time.timeZone = "America/Los_Angeles";
+
+  # Locale
+  i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
+
+  # NVIDIA proprietary drivers
+  hardware.graphics.enable = true;
+  services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
+  hardware.nvidia = {
+    modesetting.enable = true;
+    open = false; # Use proprietary driver for RTX 4080
+    nvidiaSettings = true;
+    package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;
+  };
+
+  # Wayland / Sway
+  programs.sway = {
+    enable = true;
+    wrapperFeatures.gtk = true;
+    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
+      swaylock
+      swayidle
+      foot # terminal
+      wmenu # app launcher
+      mako # notifications
+      grim # screenshots
+      slurp # region selection
+    ];
+  };
+  security.polkit.enable = true;
+
+  # Enable greetd as display manager for sway
+  services.greetd = {
+    enable = true;
+    settings = {
+      default_session = {
+        command = "${pkgs.greetd.tuigreet}/bin/tuigreet --time --cmd sway";
+        user = "greeter";
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  # PipeWire for audio
+  services.pipewire = {
+    enable = true;
+    alsa.enable = true;
+    pulse.enable = true;
+  };
+
+  # Steam
+  programs.steam = {
+    enable = true;
+    dedicatedServer.openFirewall = true;
+  };
+
+  # Tailscale
+  services.tailscale.enable = true;
+
+  # SSH
+  services.openssh = {
+    enable = true;
+    settings = {
+      PasswordAuthentication = false;
+      PermitRootLogin = "no";
+    };
+  };
+
+  # User account
+  users.users.eblume = {
+    isNormalUser = true;
+    extraGroups = [ "wheel" "networkmanager" "video" ];
+    openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
+      "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAILmh1SSCdDAyu3vkSQH7kAXEPDi8APyjo9JXDTjtha2j"
+    ];
+  };
+
+  # System packages
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    git
+    vim
+    htop
+    curl
+    wget
+  ];
+
+  # Enable nix flakes
+  nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+
+  # NixOS release
+  system.stateVersion = "25.11";
+}

nixos/ringtail/disk-config.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{
+  disko.devices = {
+    disk = {
+      nvme = {
+        type = "disk";
+        device = "/dev/nvme0n1";
+        content = {
+          type = "gpt";
+          partitions = {
+            ESP = {
+              size = "512M";
+              type = "EF00";
+              content = {
+                type = "filesystem";
+                format = "vfat";
+                mountpoint = "/boot";
+                mountOptions = [ "umask=0077" ];
+              };
+            };
+            root = {
+              size = "100%";
+              content = {
+                type = "filesystem";
+                format = "ext4";
+                mountpoint = "/";
+              };
+            };
+          };
+        };
+      };
+    };
+  };
+}

nixos/ringtail/flake.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  description = "NixOS configuration for ringtail (gaming/compute workstation)";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-25.11";
+    disko = {
+      url = "github:nix-community/disko";
+      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+    };
+  };
+
+  outputs = { nixpkgs, disko, ... }: {
+    nixosConfigurations.ringtail = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
+      system = "x86_64-linux";
+      modules = [
+        disko.nixosModules.disko
+        ./disk-config.nix
+        ./hardware-configuration.nix
+        ./configuration.nix
+      ];
+    };
+  };
+}

nixos/ringtail/hardware-configuration.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Do not modify this file!  It was generated by 'nixos-generate-config'
+# and may be overwritten by future invocations.  Please make changes
+# to configuration.nix instead.
+{ config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports =
+    [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix")
+    ];
+
+  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "nvme" "xhci_pci" "ahci" "usb_storage" "usbhid" "sd_mod" ];
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
+  boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-amd" ];
+  boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
+
+  nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
+  hardware.cpu.amd.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
+}

pulumi/tailscale/__main__.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This program manages:
 - Device tags for infrastructure classification
 
 Devices are tagged based on their role:
-- tag:homelab - Server infrastructure (indri)
+- tag:homelab - Server infrastructure (indri, ringtail)
 - tag:workstation - Development machines that can manage homelab (gilbert)
 - tag:nas - Network-attached storage (sifaka)
 - tag:blumeops - Resources managed by this IaC
@@ -82,10 +82,23 @@ flyio_key = tailscale.TailnetKey(
     expiry=7776000,  # 90 days
 )
 
+# Auth key for ringtail (gaming/compute workstation, NixOS)
+# Used during bootstrap: `tailscale up --auth-key=<key>`
+# Once ringtail is on the tailnet, add DeviceTags resource for ongoing management.
+ringtail_key = tailscale.TailnetKey(
+    "ringtail-key",
+    reusable=False,
+    ephemeral=False,
+    preauthorized=True,
+    tags=["tag:homelab", "tag:blumeops"],
+    expiry=86400,  # 24 hours - single use for bootstrap
+)
+
 # ============== Exports ==============
 pulumi.export("acl_id", acl.id)
 pulumi.export("policy_hash", policy_hash)
 pulumi.export("flyio_authkey", flyio_key.key)
+pulumi.export("ringtail_authkey", ringtail_key.key)
 
 pulumi.export("indri_device_id", indri.node_id)
 pulumi.export("indri_tags", indri_tags.tags)