NixOS-docker
DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container (by NixOS)
flake-utils-plus
Use Nix flakes without any fluff. (by gytis-ivaskevicius)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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NixOS-docker
Posts with mentions or reviews of NixOS-docker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-28.
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Throwing some Nix in the Mix
Luckily, I did not have to start from scratch as Nix serves their own docker image. I mounted one of my directories and was able to drop into a Nix shell with my configuration file.
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NixOS 21.05 Released
There is one: https://github.com/NixOS/docker
But it's more of a Nix docker image than a NixOS one, because half of the things that NixOS gives you don't really make much sense in a docker image (systemd in a container?).
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Self hosted IRL achievements list?
I only know of the nix package manager. https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix
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What tools do people use for DevOps pipelines / continuous delivery?
Ability to run buildkite agents inside a kubernetes cluster on preemble instances without need to modify agent’s Dockerfile every time new dependency comes up - was one of major reasons to learn Nix. I’m just using nixos/docker image as a base, install buildkite-agent and some base stuff like bash via nix-env inside Dickerfile, everything else lays in flake.nix of every project my dockerized nixified buildkite agent run.
flake-utils-plus
Posts with mentions or reviews of flake-utils-plus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.
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[Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?
You don't need channels to use nix-shell or nix-env. You can generate the Nix path and registry from your flake inputs. flake-utils-plus makes this easy with nix.generateRegistryFromInputs and nix.generateNixPathFromInputs.
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How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
Use flake-utils-plus to easily define multiple systems in flake.nix.and then use the --target-host flag of nixos-rebuild to deploy it remotely.
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Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
If you're trying to handle multiple systems with one config a flake is a significantly better option. I would personally recommend looking at flake-utils-plus and specifically this example config.
- Nix Flakes
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
I looked at some past threads / examples and saw people recommend flake-utils-plus, but after reading the examples I don't understand how I would get home-manager on Darwin or Ubuntu.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...
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What to do...
For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
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How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
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I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
Neat! I've been using flake-utils-plus's implementation until now. https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/blob/master/lib/repl.nix
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How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NixOS-docker and flake-utils-plus you can also consider the following projects:
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
NixOS-docker vs Home Manager using Nix
flake-utils-plus vs Home Manager using Nix
NixOS-docker vs nix
flake-utils-plus vs flake-utils
NixOS-docker vs nix-darwin
flake-utils-plus vs nixGL
NixOS-docker vs nixos-generators
flake-utils-plus vs poetry2nix
NixOS-docker vs spack
flake-utils-plus vs deploy-rs
NixOS-docker vs poetry2nix
flake-utils-plus vs nix-processmgmt