nixos-exporter: enable NATS cache sharing

When one host fetches the latest flake revision, it publishes to NATS
and all other hosts receive the update immediately. This reduces
redundant nix flake metadata calls across the fleet.

- Add nkeys to devshell for key generation
- Add nixos-exporter user to NATS HOMELAB account
- Add Vault secret for NKey storage
- Configure all hosts to use NATS for revision sharing
- Update nixos-exporter input to version with NATS support

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

flake.lock

@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
         ]
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1770422522,
-        "narHash": "sha256-WmIFnquu4u58v8S2bOVWmknRwHn4x88CRfBFTzJ1inQ=",
+        "lastModified": 1770590420,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Gih+2ufQXcZQzrlSrgZWcG7u9TjQT7z/6qybnX5yJn8=",
         "ref": "refs/heads/master",
-        "rev": "cf0ce858997af4d8dcc2ce10393ff393e17fc911",
-        "revCount": 11,
+        "rev": "acfb142788dc994cf64931f55063393d807c6ebf",
+        "revCount": 14,
         "type": "git",
         "url": "https://git.t-juice.club/torjus/nixos-exporter"
       },

flake.nix

@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@
               pkgs.opentofu
               pkgs.openbao
               pkgs.kanidm_1_8
+              pkgs.nkeys
               (pkgs.callPackage ./scripts/create-host { })
               homelab-deploy.packages.${pkgs.system}.default
             ];

services/nats/default.nix

@@ -35,9 +35,18 @@
         HOMELAB = {
           jetstream = "enabled";
           users = [
+            # alerttonotify (full access to HOMELAB account)
             {
               nkey = "UASLNKLWGICRTZMIXVD3RXLQ57XRIMCKBHP5V3PYFFRNO3E3BIJBCYMZ";
             }
+            # nixos-exporter (restricted to nixos-exporter subjects)
+            {
+              nkey = "UBCL3ODHVERVZJNGUJ567YBBKHQZOV3LK3WO6TVVSGQOCTK2NQ3IJVRV"; # Replace with public key from: nix develop -c nk -gen user -pubout
+              permissions = {
+                publish = [ "nixos-exporter.>" ];
+                subscribe = [ "nixos-exporter.>" ];
+              };
+            }
           ];
         };
 

system/monitoring/metrics.nix

@@ -19,14 +19,31 @@
     ];
   };
 
+  # Fetch NKey from Vault for NATS authentication
+  vault.secrets.nixos-exporter-nkey = {
+    secretPath = "shared/nixos-exporter/nkey";
+    extractKey = "nkey";
+  };
+
   services.prometheus.exporters.nixos = {
     enable = true;
     # Default port: 9971
     flake = {
       enable = true;
       url = "git+https://git.t-juice.club/torjus/nixos-servers.git";
+      nats = {
+        enable = true;
+        url = "nats://nats1.home.2rjus.net:4222";
+        credentialsFile = "/run/secrets/nixos-exporter-nkey";
       };
     };
+  };
+
+  # Ensure exporter starts after Vault secret is available
+  systemd.services.prometheus-nixos-exporter = {
+    after = [ "vault-secret-nixos-exporter-nkey.service" ];
+    requires = [ "vault-secret-nixos-exporter-nkey.service" ];
+  };
 
   # Register nixos-exporter as a Prometheus scrape target
   homelab.monitoring.scrapeTargets = [

terraform/vault/secrets.tf

@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ locals {
       auto_generate   = true
       password_length = 64
     }
+
+    # NKey for nixos-exporter NATS cache sharing
+    "shared/nixos-exporter/nkey" = {
+      auto_generate = false
+      data          = { nkey = var.nixos_exporter_nkey }
+    }
   }
 }
 

terraform/vault/variables.tf

@@ -73,3 +73,10 @@ variable "homelab_deploy_admin_deployer_nkey" {
   sensitive   = true
 }
 
+variable "nixos_exporter_nkey" {
+  description = "NKey seed for nixos-exporter NATS authentication"
+  type        = string
+  default     = "PLACEHOLDER"
+  sensitive   = true
+}
+