There might be quicker ways to do this, but with one extra line a derivation exports a docker image which can in turn be turned to a tar with one more line. Ni

There might be quicker ways to do this, but with one extra line a derivation exports a docker image which can in turn be turned to a tar with one more line. Nix's image building is pretty neat. You can control how many layers you want, which I currently maximize so that docker pulls from AWS ECR are a lot faster