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There is also https://nixery.dev/ https://nixery.dev/ which lets you get Docker images with arbitrary Nix packages - useful for quick hacking.

rmorey 4y ago
woah - this is great, thanks
MuffinFlavored 4y ago
Kind of confusing. NixOS vs Nix the language... You use Nix the language to build Docker images and avoid the NixOS CLI tools/runtime?
- k__ 4y ago
  Nix the package manager. Nix the language. NixOS the Linux built with Nix as it's default package manager that uses the Nix language.
  - MuffinFlavored 4y ago
    Nix the language can compile OCI (Open Container Initiative) format images that can be deployed/ran/executed via Docker or k8s? Or is that Nix the package manager? Does Nix the package manager compile Nix the language images?
    - piperswe 4y ago
      [nixpkgs the package collection] (which is used by [Nix the package manager], and also contains the [Nix the programming language] expressions that define [NixOS the operating system]) has expressions for easily building OCI images: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-dockerTool...
      - MuffinFlavored 4y ago
        Do you have to be on NixOS to use the OCI images outputtable by nixpks/nix package manager or can you build OCI images using Nix from Mac/Windows/other non NixOS Linux?
        elikoga 4y ago
        > Do you have to be on NixOS to use the OCI images outputtable by nixpks/nix package manager No > can you build OCI images using Nix from Mac/Windows/other non NixOS Linux? Non NixOS Unix, not Windows yet, unless you use WSL or a VM
        piperswe 4y ago
        They're just normal OCI images, so they can be run by any OCI-compatible container runtime. You can build images from any system running Nix, though you might encounter trouble on non-Linux systems because you may need to cross-compile the packages you use. The build process is exactly the same on any Linux distro (including NixOS and anything else) though.

rmorey 4y ago

woah - this is great, thanks

MuffinFlavored 4y ago

Kind of confusing. NixOS vs Nix the language... You use Nix the language to build Docker images and avoid the NixOS CLI tools/runtime?

k__ 4y ago
Nix the package manager. Nix the language. NixOS the Linux built with Nix as it's default package manager that uses the Nix language.
- MuffinFlavored 4y ago
  Nix the language can compile OCI (Open Container Initiative) format images that can be deployed/ran/executed via Docker or k8s? Or is that Nix the package manager? Does Nix the package manager compile Nix the language images?
  - piperswe 4y ago
    [nixpkgs the package collection] (which is used by [Nix the package manager], and also contains the [Nix the programming language] expressions that define [NixOS the operating system]) has expressions for easily building OCI images: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-dockerTool...
    - MuffinFlavored 4y ago
      Do you have to be on NixOS to use the OCI images outputtable by nixpks/nix package manager or can you build OCI images using Nix from Mac/Windows/other non NixOS Linux?
      - elikoga 4y ago
        > Do you have to be on NixOS to use the OCI images outputtable by nixpks/nix package manager No > can you build OCI images using Nix from Mac/Windows/other non NixOS Linux? Non NixOS Unix, not Windows yet, unless you use WSL or a VM
      - piperswe 4y ago
        They're just normal OCI images, so they can be run by any OCI-compatible container runtime. You can build images from any system running Nix, though you might encounter trouble on non-Linux systems because you may need to cross-compile the packages you use. The build process is exactly the same on any Linux distro (including NixOS and anything else) though.