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Neat. It seems like Nix could become the preferred way to build Docker images, if it's made a bit more user friendly. It's hard to beat the simplicity of F
by tlrobinson 8y ago
Neat. It seems like Nix could become the preferred way to build Docker images, if it's made a bit more user friendly. It's hard to beat the simplicity of
FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y mysql php
- jf 8y agoI'm very optimistic about Nix. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest starting with this article: https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-management-with-nix https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-management-with... I also gave a talk about why I'm excited about Nix: https://vimeo.com/223525975 https://vimeo.com/223525975
- notthemessiah 8y ago"Simplest" can be subjective. There's not much that can compete with editing your nixos config file and adding services.mattermost.enable = true; and then running # nixos-rebuild switch to have a mattermost instance running.
- tlrobinson 8y agoI'm specifically talk about building a Docker container. The example in the article has a couple dozen lines of nix config and several shell commands.