An Overview of Nix in Practice

• compose2nix

  3 131 9.0 Go

  A tool to automatically generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project.

You can run containers on NixOS (also through systemd) and get the same benefits explained in this article. NixOS supports both Podman and Docker as a runtime. There is also the option to run NixOS containers. See: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers.

The Docker Compose story is a bit rough around the edges, though. I’m actually working on a tool to automatically convert a Compose file into a NixOS config you can import as-is. Still kinda early, but the skeleton works: https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix

• Home Manager using Nix

  182 5,863 9.8 Nix

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

  

> Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs

It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.

Per the Nix manual[0]:

> Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.

e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:

  nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• nur-packages-template

  1 98 5.9 Nix

  A template for NUR repositories: [maintainer=@fgaz]

  

e.g. I think it's common for users to share their config or sets of packages with something like a "nix user repository" https://github.com/nix-community/nur-packages-template

• nix.dev

  17 2,041 9.6 Nix

  Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

  

• nixos-anywhere

  6 1,017 8.9 Shell

  install nixos everywhere via ssh [maintainer=@numtide]

  

I think things are pretty good with nixos-anywhere[1] now. I made a video last month walking through the process of provisioning a VPS on Hetzner Cloud[2] if you want to see what the process looks like in real-time.

[1]:https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4

• nixos-wsl-starter

  3 141 6.5 Nix

  A sane, batteries-included starter template for running NixOS on WSL

I've been trying to encourage people to give NixOS in VMs a try as a safe way to build up a nice working environment while still maintaining your daily driver until you're interested in/ready to switch. I have a starter template for NixOS on WSL[1] with an accompanying walkthrough[2] if you want to get an idea of how much effort this might require on your part.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/nixos-wsl-starter

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRXXYxq8k4

• nix

  372 10,879 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

You can also configure the consumer to consume it over ssh without special setup on the host. But it opens a connection for every single request so it ends up killing the performance [1]

[1] - https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8794

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• gokrazy

  19 3,148 7.7 Go

  turn your Go program(s) into an appliance running on the Raspberry Pi 3, Pi 4, Pi Zero 2 W, or amd64 PCs!

  

• main

  14 438 9.1 Shell

  OCI base images of Fedora with batteries included (by ublue-os)

  

What you are looking for is UBlue, https://github.com/ublue-os/main.

It's a variant of Silverblue with Nvidia drivers built in.

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