I tried doing a dev environment on Kubernetes but the fact you have to be dealing with a set of containers that could change if the base layer changed meant ins

I tried doing a dev environment on Kubernetes but the fact you have to be dealing with a set of containers that could change if the base layer changed meant instability in certain cases which threw me off. I ended up with a mix of nix and it's vm build system which is based on qemu. The issue is too tied to NixOS and all services run in the same place which forces you to manage ports and other things. How I wish it could work is having a flake that defines certain services, these services could or could not run in different µVMs sharing an isolated linux network layer. Your flake could define your versions, your commands to interact and manage the lifecyle of those µVM's. As the nix store can be cached/shared, it can be provide fast and reproducible builds after the first build.