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devenv
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Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix
I gave devenv multiple tries, and I am sorry to say there are multiple annoying issues that forced me to give up every time.
Some of these 200+ issues are unsolved for a fairly long time.
https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues
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Nix – A One Pager
Software developers often want to customize:
1. their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow).
2. their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here.
3. or even their operating systems: for development, for CI, for deployment, or for personal use.
Nix provision all of the above in the same language, with Nixpkgs, NixOS, home-manager, and devShells such as https://devenv.sh/. What's more, Nix is (https://nixos.org/):
- reproducible: what works on your dev machine also works in CI in prod,
- declarative: you version control and review your configurations and infrastructure as code, at a reasonable level of abstraction,
- reliable: all changes are atomic with easy roll back.
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Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software
https://devenv.sh/ and nix in general are great for setting up dev environments.
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Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
> but worried that the development is not moving forward
There is an open v1.0 PR: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/1005
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What's the Next Vagrant?
2) A way to run services apps depend on (databases, job runners, cache etc).
I am going to suggest one of the Nix based tools that do those things:
- https://devenv.sh/ (I use this at work)
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Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?
Yup, I haven’t tried it but there is https://devenv.sh which is built on top of nix and makes it simple.
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Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
Although Guix reads better than Nix (after all, it's Lisp), I found the support and resources available for learning severely lacking.
Plus, you have to jump through hoops to install non-free software, which goes against the ethos of Guix anyway.
IMHO, Nix is clearly "the winner" here and we'll see more and more adoption as it improves. Lots of folks are doing exciting work (see https://determinate.systems/, https://devenv.sh/, https://flakehub.com/). And the scale and organization around nixpkgs is damn impressive.
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NixOS has one fatal flaw
I don't think you can ever get Nix as simple as PNPM, simply because native libraries are sometimes annoying, need to be configured at build time to a greater degree and because the problem space it attacks is so much larger than PNPM, which only deals with the JS/Node.js ecosystem.
However, I do think that there exist reasonable levels of abstraction that sacrifice some expressive power for simplicity and such systems could maybe expose a PNPM-like CLI. One example that comes to mind is devenv.nix [1]. While it doesn't yet have a CLI, its configuration file is YAML and relatively simple. I think there's more to be done in this space and I hope for tools that are easier to grasp in the future.
> Nix package files evaluate down to configuration for the Nix package manager, but I haven’t ever seen a good explanation for the basic essentials underneath all the abstraction. Every guide I’ve learned from and all the package defs I’ve read seem to cargo cult many layers of mysterious config composing config. Without easy to learn essentials it’s difficult to grok the system as a whole.
To me it sounds like the essential that you're referring to is the 'derivation' primitive, which is almost always hidden behind the mkDerivation abstraction from nixpkgs. This [2] blog post is an exploration of what exactly that means.
I'd also love for the documentation situation to be much better, in particular in terms of official, curated resources. But I'm not convinced that you actually need to know the difference between derivation and mkDerivation to make effective use of Nix, because in practice you would always use the latter. That said, mkDerivation and the whole of nixpkgs is essentially a huge DSL (I believe this is what you meant when you said 'config composing config') that you do need to know and is woefully underdocumented.
> I would love to adopt Nix for developer tooling for Notion’s engineers, but today it’s about infinity times easier to work around the limitations mentioned of Docker+Ubuntu+NPM than to work around the limitations of Nix.
One approach I have taken to is to specify the environment in Nix, but then generate Docker devcontainers from it, so most people don't come into contact with Nix if they don't want to.
[1] https://devenv.sh
[2] https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/derivations/
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Development Environments with Guix, similar to devenv.sh
This though, through the use of devenv.sh, which uses nix, as when I got into nix I though it was going to be easier to just make a development environment, not the case. Until I found devenv.sh, I could actually finally make good environments... It also has other features like containers and services, which also help me know that I can get the most of it if the time comes.
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devenv needs help testing 1.0 release
Instructions: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/745
telepresence
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New job has no way of coding locally?
I trialled Telepresence[0] for my company 2 or 3 years ago, that does this sort of thing very slickly. It didn't quite work for us back then, I forget why, but I imagine it's come along a way since then.
[0] https://www.telepresence.io
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Introducing a tool for running diagnostic and administrative tools locally on your machine, but with outgoing network connectivity as if they're running in your k8s cluster.
How does this compare to Telepresence?
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Let's debug a kubernetes pod locally
seems to be very similar to https://www.telepresence.io
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Is it ok not to be able to run application locally?
If they're web services you work on, you might try https://www.telepresence.io/ (Requires something to be installed in the cluster though, easily done).
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Best Neovim PHP IDE option?
Depending on the context, the type of code you do, you may want to also look into the sister protocol to LSP, DAP—debug adaptor protocol. It really depends on your context whether local dev, dev against a remote server, and if the latter whether you run under GCP and thus have the “Snapshot Debugger”, or under Kubernetes with something like Ambassadar/Emissary and thus can run Telepresence, whether you do local or remote Docker and thus most IDEs don't necessarily magically work especially if the containers are competently locked down, etc.
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LXD containers on macOS at near-native speeds
If you're on Kubernetes remotely, Telepresence [0] might be worth a look.
[0] https://www.telepresence.io
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I wrote an OSS tool to tunnel your IDE to Kubernetes
Sounds Like Telepresence (https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence) which intercepts traffic to a service on the cluster and directs it to your local environment.
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mirrord 3.0 is out - run/debug your code in the context of your k8s cluster
This seems to be very similar to Telepresence, which I just couldn't get to work for us.
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Connecting a local container with a Kubernetes cluster
What the difference with okteto and telepresence ?
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telepresence VS mirrord - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 4 Oct 2022
What are some alternatives?
devbox - Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
devspace - DevSpace - The Fastest Developer Tool for Kubernetes ⚡ Automate your deployment workflow with DevSpace and develop software directly inside Kubernetes.
nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
tilt - Define your dev environment as code. For microservice apps on Kubernetes.
direnv - unclutter your .profile
Gravitational Teleport - Protect access to all of your infrastructure
devshell - Per project developer environments
skaffold - Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
rembg - Rembg is a tool to remove images background
teleport - A WebXR teleport for three.js
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
garden - Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching