Nix itself doesn't use Docker, and you can deploy it like that just fine (with NixOS, and NixOps if you have multiple machines). But sometimes your ops team ha

Nix itself doesn't use Docker, and you can deploy it like that just fine (with NixOS, and NixOps if you have multiple machines). But sometimes your ops team has standardized on Docker, maybe because you're using Kubernetes. In that case, Nix will happily build those images for you.