If your interested in digging deeper into building docker containers with nix this is my favorite post on the topic: https://thewagner.net/blog/2021/02/25/build

If your interested in digging deeper into building docker containers with nix this is my favorite post on the topic: https://thewagner.net/blog/2021/02/25/building-container-images-with-nix/ https://thewagner.net/blog/2021/02/25/building-container-ima.... Essentially you can use any nix package (including your own) to create the environment. And if you really want to understand it, Graham Christensen (the contributor of the buildLayeredImage function) wrote a really good blog post on how it works: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images.