flake-utils-plus VS hydra

Compare flake-utils-plus vs hydra and see what are their differences.

flake-utils-plus

Use Nix flakes without any fluff. (by gytis-ivaskevicius)

hydra

Hydra, the Nix-based continuous build system (by NixOS)
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flake-utils-plus hydra
19 5
433 1,027
- 5.3%
5.7 8.7
5 months ago 10 days ago
Nix Perl
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

hydra

Posts with mentions or reviews of hydra. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-17.
  • Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    See https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/838 for making content-addressed derivations supported by hydra.nixos.org. At that point, we can actually try out the XP feature at scale.

    Also see https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8919 for this accepted RFC

    Once those things are done, we can get back to merging in the IPFS code.

    Now that there is an Nix team and I am on it, there is much, much less of an issue of these experiments being caught in limbo :).

  • Concerns about Arch Team size, trusting Arch supply chain, developer machines and build process
    3 projects | /r/archlinux | 8 Jan 2023
    https://github.com/nix-community/infra, Community project builds https://github.com/NixOS/hydra, NixOS build server
  • Monorepo Build Tools
    4 projects | /r/programming | 15 Dec 2022
    Nix is pretty cool, and I would say comparisons to Earthly are apt. I may tackle that in a follow-up. If you did a monorepo setup written in nix and then used something like Hydra for building, it might be a pretty nice solution.
  • Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022
    Nix seems great for build servers. This is a great introduction to the motivations behind it.

    I'm not sold on using it for managing developer environments (another use case it is often used for). It "solves" the problem that developers might be using different versions of libraries or compilers on their machines... but it comes at the cost of having to learn a whole new programming language, a configuration language, a whole new jargon, and workflow. It's a bit like using Docker as a development environment. It introduces a non-trivial amount of friction.

    Some folks get excited about package management and configuration. Personally I don't care for it enough to over-come such a high learning curve. And I don't particularly like the workflow it enforces.

    However it is pretty great for reproducible CI/CD systems like Hydra: https://github.com/NixOS/hydra

  • How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 17 Mar 2022
    Somewhat related to this, is there a good way to install something from a flake inside the configuration.nix? For example, the hydra flake, since it includes many derivations for dependencies that are not part of nixpkgs (or are at the wrong versions).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flake-utils-plus and hydra you can also consider the following projects:

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container

deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.

nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework

NUR - Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92]

digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!

nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

nix-update - Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.