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feat(self-host): Nix flake and NixOS module for Maple Local - #2410
Self-hosted Maple (Maple Local, the maple binary behind ghcr.io/mapletechlabs/maple) can now run on NixOS without Docker.
What changed
flake.nix with packages.<system>.maple. It packages the released bundle (maple + libchdb.so), the same artifact the installer and the image ship. nix/release.json pins the version and each platform's sha256. A wrapper turns off the update check and refuses maple update, as the Homebrew formula does.
nixosModules.maple (services.maple) is the systemd version of apps/cli/docker/entrypoint.sh:
options for host, port, advertise host, firewall, checkpoint interval and dirty-store policy, plus extraArgs;
ingestKeyFile and accessTokenFile are read through LoadCredential, so the secrets stay out of the Nix store. Both are required off loopback;
a static maple user with HOME=/var/lib/maple, so sudo -u maple HOME=/var/lib/maple maple checkpoint works;
the same dirty-store policy as the image (restore the checkpoint once one exists, otherwise wipe), RestartPreventExitStatus=78, and systemd hardening.
nix/test.nix is a NixOS VM test, run by the new Nix workflow (nix flake check, on changes to the flake). It checks that:
the service starts;
reads without the token and ingest without the key both get 401;
a span sent over OTLP with the key comes back through maple services;
maple checkpoint works as the service user;
the data survives a restart.
Release pin. A new nix-release job in local-binary-release.yml runs after each stable release. It calls scripts/update-nix-release.sh <tag>, opens a PR re-pinning nix/release.json and dispatches the Nix check on it. It skips re-runs of older tags.
Docs: a new user page, self-hosting/platforms/nixos, and a maintainer section in docs/local-mode.md.
The rest of the issue's proposal (packaging api, alerting and electric, which are cloud-only Workers) is out of scope. The self-hosted product is Maple Local.
Verification
nix build .#maple in a nixos/nix container (aarch64-linux): autoPatchelf leaves Bun's embedded payload intact, and the install check passes (maple --version, update refusal).
Smoke test of the Nix-built binary: /health returns 200; /local/status without the token returns 401; ingest without the key returns 401 and with it 200; maple services returns the span.
The NixOS VM test passes on aarch64-linux, under TCG emulation with no KVM (417 s). Its first run caught a real bug: the hardening blocked AF_NETLINK, which getifaddrs() needs.
nix flake check --no-build --all-systems passes, and nixfmt --check is clean.
scripts/update-nix-release.sh against v0.3.4 (4 platforms) and v0.3.5 reproduces the committed pin. v0.3.5 has no aarch64-darwin bundle, so the script leaves that platform out.
Packages the released maple bundle (pinned in nix/release.json) and adds
services.maple, the systemd counterpart of the container image: a static
maple user, secrets from files via LoadCredential, the image's dirty-store
policy and RestartPreventExitStatus=78. A NixOS VM test covers auth, OTLP
ingest, CLI reads, a checkpoint as the service user and a restart; the Nix
workflow runs it. After each stable release, the release workflow opens a
PR re-pinning the flake.
Closes#2400
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Walkthrough
This pull request adds a Nix flake package for Maple, a NixOS systemd module, a VM test, and a Nix check workflow. It also documents NixOS deployment and adds automation to update release metadata for the newest stable release.
Changes: Nix packaging and NixOS deployment
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Summary
Package and flake outputs nix/release.json, nix/package.nix, flake.nix
Release metadata lists platform assets and hashes. The package installs the Maple binary and shared library, and disables maple update. The flake exports package, overlay, module, check, and formatter outputs.
NixOS service and usage nix/module.nix, nix/test.nix, apps/landing/src/content/docs/self-hosting.md, apps/landing/src/content/docs/self-hosting/platforms/nixos.md
The module defines services.maple options and configures startup, credentials, state storage, firewall access, and systemd restrictions. The VM test checks authentication, trace retrieval, checkpointing, and service restart. The guide links to NixOS documentation, which describes configuration and operation.
The workflow runs nix flake check for matching pull requests and pushes to main, or on manual dispatch. The flake defines Linux package and NixOS module checks.
For the newest stable release, the release workflow updates nix/release.json from uploaded assets and checksums. If the file changes, it pushes a versioned branch, opens a pull request if needed, and dispatches the Nix workflow. The documentation describes the package, module, checks, and release update job.
sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseJob as Release workflow job
participant UpdateScript as update-nix-release.sh
participant GitHubReleases as GitHub Releases
participant GitHubRepository as GitHub repository
participant NixWorkflow as Nix workflow
ReleaseJob->>UpdateScript: Pass stable release tag
UpdateScript->>GitHubReleases: Read asset names and checksums
GitHubReleases-->>UpdateScript: Return assets and checksums
UpdateScript->>UpdateScript: Write nix/release.json
ReleaseJob->>GitHubRepository: Push versioned branch and open pull request
ReleaseJob->>NixWorkflow: Dispatch workflow on versioned branch
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Directly linked issue #2400 is open. It asks for a maintained Nix build and NixOS module for self-hosting, or clear build and run steps. The PR takes option (a) for Maple Local, the maple binary.
[Nix package and flake] flake.nix exports packages.<system>.maple through nix/package.nix. The package installs the release bundle pinned in nix/release.json, which holds the version and per-platform sha256 values. The flake also exports overlays.default, nixosModules.maple and checks.
[NixOS module and secrets] nix/module.nix defines services.maple. It provides options for host, port, advertise host, firewall, checkpoint interval, dirty-store policy and extraArgs. ingestKeyFile and accessTokenFile are typed as strings, not paths, so secrets stay out of the Nix store. The start script reads them through LoadCredential and exits 78 when a secret file is empty. Assertions require both files off loopback and reject store paths for them.
[NixOS VM test] nix/test.nix checks service start and /health. It checks that reads without the token return 401 and that ingest without the key returns 401. It checks that a span sent with the key is returned by maple services. It checks maple checkpoint as the maple user and that data survives a restart. It also checks that an empty access-token file leaves the unit failed with exit 78. The Nix workflow runs nix flake check. The nix-release job keeps the pin current, which answers the drift concern in the issue.
Scope note: the issue also proposes packages for the Bun apps, apps/ingest, and the collector. It also proposes module options for Postgres, Electric and ClickHouse URLs. The PR does not implement these. The PR description states that these components are cloud-only Workers and that the self-hosted product is Maple Local. I did not verify that claim against the Dockerfiles. The issue presents the packaging scope as a maintainer choice, so this does not count as a concrete unmet requirement of the chosen path.
Issue questions 2 and 3 are design questions about the minimal stack and stable build commands. They are not coding requirements.
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flake.nix, nix/package.nix, nix/release.json: package, overlay and pinned release bundle.
nix/module.nix: the services.maple systemd module. The AF_NETLINK entry in RestrictAddressFamilies is a fix needed for the service to start.
nix/test.nix and .github/workflows/nix.yml: the NixOS VM test and its CI run.
.github/workflows/local-binary-release.yml (nix-release job) and scripts/update-nix-release.sh: keep the pin current after stable releases. The issue asks for CI that catches drift.
apps/landing/src/content/docs/self-hosting/platforms/nixos.md, apps/landing/src/content/docs/self-hosting.md, docs/local-mode.md: user and maintainer documentation for the module.
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ubuntu-latest runs this job on x86_64-linux. nix flake check does not build the aarch64-linux checks without a separate ARM build. As a result, a bad ARM release pin can pass this workflow and leave the ARM package unusable. Add a native ARM package check, while keeping the VM test on the current runner. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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F2 (overlay unfree): documented beside the overlay in flake.nix (latest commit), and on the NixOS docs page ("Without NixOS"). An overlay cannot set the consumer's nixpkgs config, so this stays a documented prerequisite; the flake's own packages and the module's default package build without it.
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Reject the inline --data-dir form.
--data-dir=/var/lib/maple/custom passes this assertion and redirects the store. After an unclean stop, the wrapper can select wipe because it checks the default directory, even when the custom store has a checkpoint. This discards live telemetry instead of restoring that checkpoint.
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Update the extraArgs assertion in the config block so it rejects both the
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Adds a Nix flake and a services.maple NixOS module that run the released Maple Local bundle under systemd, with a NixOS VM test, a release-pin job and docs. Confined to new packaging files; nothing to fix before merge. flake.lock was not read (lockfile).
flake.nix packages the released bundle and exports nixosModules.maple
services.maple runs maple start under systemd with LoadCredential secrets
The bin/maple wrapper refuses update and sets MAPLE_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1
A release job re-pins nix/release.json and dispatches the Nix check
Still open from earlier reviews
🔵 Note · F2 · overlays.default yields maple as an unfree package that throws on evaluate · flake.nix:42
Fixed since the last review
✅ F3 · Empty-secret refusal (exit 78) is not covered by the VM test
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@maple-review-bot won't fix F2: an overlay cannot set the consumer's nixpkgs config. The prerequisite is documented beside the overlay in flake.nix and on the NixOS docs page; the flake's own packages and the module default build without it.
You're right, and F2 can be dismissed. I re-read flake.nix, nix/package.nix and nix/module.nix at 5b5c911.
An overlay receives only final/prev and cannot change the nixpkgs config the consumer imported with, so lib.getName pkg == "maple" in the consumer's allowUnfreePredicate is the only lever — the prerequisite is stated next to the overlay:
# flake.nix:42-44# Builds from the consumer's nixpkgs, so it needs maple allowed there:# nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = p: lib.getName p == "maple";overlays.default=final: _prev: {maple=mapleForfinal;};
and again in apps/landing/src/content/docs/self-hosting/platforms/nixos.md:76. My claim that the flake's own paths are unaffected checks out: packages and checks build through pkgsFor, which sets the predicate locally (flake.nix:23-28), and the module default is defaultPackage pkgs = self.packages.${system}.maple (flake.nix:46-48, module.nix:66-71), i.e. that same package — so services.maple.enable = true on a stock config never evaluates the unfree throw.
The only alternative, having the overlay import nixpkgs itself with its own predicate, would silently detach maple from the consumer's prev/final and break overrides and patching of its inputs — worse than a documented prerequisite. Nothing to fix here.
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Closes #2400.
Self-hosted Maple (Maple Local, the
maplebinary behindghcr.io/mapletechlabs/maple) can now run on NixOS without Docker.What changed
flake.nixwithpackages.<system>.maple. It packages the released bundle (maple+libchdb.so), the same artifact the installer and the image ship.nix/release.jsonpins the version and each platform's sha256. A wrapper turns off the update check and refusesmaple update, as the Homebrew formula does.nixosModules.maple(services.maple) is the systemd version ofapps/cli/docker/entrypoint.sh:extraArgs;ingestKeyFileandaccessTokenFileare read throughLoadCredential, so the secrets stay out of the Nix store. Both are required off loopback;mapleuser withHOME=/var/lib/maple, sosudo -u maple HOME=/var/lib/maple maple checkpointworks;RestartPreventExitStatus=78, and systemd hardening.nix/test.nixis a NixOS VM test, run by the newNixworkflow (nix flake check, on changes to the flake). It checks that:maple services;maple checkpointworks as the service user;nix-releasejob inlocal-binary-release.ymlruns after each stable release. It callsscripts/update-nix-release.sh <tag>, opens a PR re-pinningnix/release.jsonand dispatches the Nix check on it. It skips re-runs of older tags.self-hosting/platforms/nixos, and a maintainer section indocs/local-mode.md.The rest of the issue's proposal (packaging api, alerting and electric, which are cloud-only Workers) is out of scope. The self-hosted product is Maple Local.
Verification
nix build .#maplein anixos/nixcontainer (aarch64-linux): autoPatchelf leaves Bun's embedded payload intact, and the install check passes (maple --version, update refusal)./healthreturns 200;/local/statuswithout the token returns 401; ingest without the key returns 401 and with it 200;maple servicesreturns the span.AF_NETLINK, whichgetifaddrs()needs.nix flake check --no-build --all-systemspasses, andnixfmt --checkis clean.scripts/update-nix-release.shagainst v0.3.4 (4 platforms) and v0.3.5 reproduces the committed pin. v0.3.5 has no aarch64-darwin bundle, so the script leaves that platform out.No UI changes, so no screenshots.
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