Issue with getting started with sops-nix

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I’m trying to follow this tutorial for sops-nix Managing Secrets in NixOS Home Manager with SOPS. Under Create and Encrypt the Secrets File, I tried nix-shell -p sops --run "sops secrets.yaml" but I keep getting config file not found, or has no creation rules, and no keys provided through command line options, despite .sops.yaml existing in the current directory. What do I do? Is there something I’m missing?

Also, let me know if there’s a better tutorial that explains things for noobs that never used sops at all.

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Post the contents of your .sops.yaml (you can redact the keys if you want, but copy everything else exactly, yaml is whitespace-sensitive).

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The article had the indentation wrong for .sops.yaml, it’s supposed to look like this:

keys:
  - &host_hostname <youragekey>
creation_rules:
  - path_regex: secrets.yaml$
    key_groups:
    - age:
      - *host_hostname
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Yeah, that’s in the readme… generally articles by random users are not the best quality. Prefer upstream docs.

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