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---
title: Migrating vaultwarden to nixos
description: How I migrated my vaultwarden installation to nixos
date: 2023-12-20
tags:
- nix
- vaultwarden
---
## Introduction
I am migrating several services from a k3s kubernetes cluster to a nixos server. Here is how I performed the operation with my [vaultwarden](https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden) password manager.
## Vaultwarden with nixos
Vaultwarden is packaged on nixos, but I am used to the hosting the container image and upgrading it at my own pace so I am sticking with it for now.
Here is the module I wrote to deploy a vaultwarden container, configure postgresql and borg backups in `apps/vaultwarden/app.nix`:
```nix
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports = [
../../lib/nginx.nix
../../lib/postgresql.nix
];
environment.etc = {
"borg-vaultwarden-db.key" = {
mode = "0400";
source = ./borg-db.key;
};
"borg-vaultwarden-storage.key" = {
mode = "0400";
source = ./borg-storage.key;
};
};
services = {
borgbackup.jobs = let defaults = {
compression = "auto,zstd";
doInit = true;
encryption.mode = "none";
prune.keep = {
daily = 14;
weekly = 4;
monthly = 3;
};
startAt = "daily";
}; in {
"vaultwarden-db" = defaults // {
environment.BORG_RSH = "ssh -i /etc/borg-vaultwarden-db.key";
paths = "/tmp/vaultwarden.sql";
postHook = "rm -f /tmp/vaultwarden.sql";
preHook = ''rm -f /tmp/vaultwarden.sql; /run/current-system/sw/bin/pg_dump -h localhost -U vaultwarden -d vaultwarden > /tmp/vaultwarden.sql'';
repo = "ssh://borg@gcp.adyxax.org/srv/borg/vaultwarden-db";
};
"vaultwarden-storage" = defaults // {
environment.BORG_RSH = "ssh -i /etc/borg-vaultwarden-storage.key";
paths = "/srv/vaultwarden";
repo = "ssh://borg@gcp.adyxax.org/srv/borg/vaultwarden-storage";
};
};
nginx.virtualHosts = let commons = {
forceSSL = true;
locations = {
"/" = {
proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8083";
};
};
}; in {
"pass.adyxax.org" = commons // {
sslCertificate = "/etc/nginx/adyxax.org.crt";
sslCertificateKey = "/etc/nginx/adyxax.org.key";
};
};
postgresql = {
ensureUsers = [{
name = "vaultwarden";
ensureDBOwnership = true;
}];
ensureDatabases = ["vaultwarden"];
};
};
virtualisation.oci-containers.containers = {
vaultwarden = {
environment = {
ADMIN_TOKEN = builtins.readFile ./argon-token.key;
DATABASE_MAX_CONNS = "2";
DATABASE_URL = "postgres://vaultwarden:" + (lib.removeSuffix "\n" (builtins.readFile ./database-password.key)) + "@10.88.0.1/vaultwarden?sslmode=disable";
};
image = "vaultwarden/server:1.30.1";
ports = ["127.0.0.1:8083:80"];
volumes = [ "/srv/vaultwarden/:/data" ];
};
};
}
```
## Dependencies
### Borg
Borg needs to be running on another server with the following configuration stored in my `apps/vaultwarden/borg.nix` file:
```nix
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports = [
../../lib/borg.nix
];
users.users.borg.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
("command=\"borg serve --restrict-to-path /srv/borg/vaultwarden-db\",restrict " + (builtins.readFile ./borg-db.key.pub))
("command=\"borg serve --restrict-to-path /srv/borg/vaultwarden-storage\",restrict " + (builtins.readFile ./borg-storage.key.pub))
];
}
```
### PostgreSQL
My postgreSQL module defines the following global configuration:
```nix
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
{
networking.firewall.interfaces."podman0".allowedTCPPorts = [ 5432 ];
services.postgresql = {
enable = true;
enableTCPIP = true;
package = pkgs.postgresql_15;
authentication = pkgs.lib.mkOverride 10 ''
#type database DBuser auth-method
local all all trust
# podman
host all all 10.88.0.0/16 scram-sha-256
'';
};
}
```
Since for now I am running nothing outside of containers on this server, I am trusting the unix socket connections. Depending on what you are doing you might want a stronger auth-method there.
### Nginx
My nginx module defines the following global configuration:
```nix
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
{
environment.etc = let permissions = { mode = "0400"; uid= config.ids.uids.nginx; }; in {
"nginx/adyxax.org.crt" = permissions // { source = ../../01-legacy/adyxax.org.crt; };
"nginx/adyxax.org.key" = permissions // { source = ../../01-legacy/adyxax.org.key; };
};
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 80 443 ];
services.nginx = {
clientMaxBodySize = "40M";
enable = true;
enableReload = true;
recommendedGzipSettings = true;
recommendedOptimisation = true;
recommendedProxySettings = true;
};
}
```
### Secrets
There are several secrets referenced in the configuration, these are all git-crypted files:
- argon-token.key
- borg-db.key
- borg-storage.key
- database-password.key
## Migration process
The first step is obviously to deploy this new configuration to the server, then I need to login and manually restore the backups.
```sh
make run host=myth.adyxax.org
```
The container will be failing because no password is set on the database user yet, so I stop it:
```sh
systemctl stop podman-vaultwarden
```
There are two backup jobs for vaultwarden: one for its storage and the second one for the database.
```sh
export BORG_RSH="ssh -i /etc/borg-vaultwarden-storage.key"
borg list ssh://borg@gcp.adyxax.org/srv/borg/vaultwarden-storage
borg extract ssh://borg@gcp.adyxax.org/srv/borg/vaultwarden-storage::dalinar-vaultwarden-storage-2023-11-19T00:00:01
mv srv/vaultwarden /srv/
```
```sh
export BORG_RSH="ssh -i /etc/borg-vaultwarden-db.key"
borg list ssh://borg@gcp.adyxax.org/srv/borg/vaultwarden-db
borg extract ssh://borg@gcp.adyxax.org/srv/borg/vaultwarden-db::dalinar-vaultwarden-db-2023-11-19T00:00:01
psql -h localhost -U postgres -d vaultwarden
```
Restoring the data itself is done with the psql shell:
```sql
ALTER USER vaultwarden WITH PASSWORD 'XXXXX';
\i tmp/vaultwarden.sql
```
Afterwards I clean up the database dump and restart vaultwarden:
```sh
rm -rf tmp/
systemctl start podman-vaultwarden
```
To wrap this up I migrate the DNS records to the new host, update my monitoring system and clean up the namespace on the k3s server.
## Conclusion
Automating things with nixos is satisfying, but it does not abstract all the sysadmin's work away.
I am not quite satisfied with my borg configuration entries. I should be able to write this more elegantly when I find the time, but it works.
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