Week 10 Lab: Rebuild from bare metal

Week 10 lab, prove the setup is reproducible by building it again on a clean machine

26 April 2027

The lab that tests the dream against a clean disk.

Before the lab#

Bring a bootstrap path for your setup, however rough, and a fresh virtual machine to run it against.

In the lab#

Everyone rebuilds from bare metal at once. The clock runs, and every hand-fix you have to make is a hole in your repository you did not know was there. We compare where each setup sits on the spectrum, from copied folders to a declarative Nix build, and what the next step up would cost.

Afterwards#

You leave with a setup that regenerates itself, or a precise list of why it does not yet, which is nearly as valuable.