> I spent a half a day or so relatively recently trying to build our CI base image with Nix (at the recommendation of our infra team), but it was huge, and som

> I spent a half a day or so relatively recently trying to build our CI base image with Nix (at the recommendation of our infra team), but it was huge, and some stuff didn't work because of linking issues. You must be talking about the official Nix Docker image[1], which indeed is huge. I've been using it for years for a handful of projects, but if the size is an issue you can use the method mentioned in the article and build a very minimal image with only the stuff you specify. [1] https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix/tags https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix/tags