> Is Nix a viable alternative to that? Yes, it even provides stronger reproducibility guarantees that what you build locally and what's on prod are exactly the

> Is Nix a viable alternative to that? Yes, it even provides stronger reproducibility guarantees that what you build locally and what's on prod are exactly the same. You can also build a docker container from the Nix expression, see: https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images If you are interested, I recommend then also checking out https://zero-to-nix.com/ https://zero-to-nix.com/