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Deploying Containers on NixOS (bkiran.com)

submitted 2 months ago by demesisx@infosec.pub to c/nix@programming.dev

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Let's make managing infrastructure on your own machine less cumbersome. Simplify it with NixOS and containers.

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Way I see it the only reasons to use docker on nixos is if:

you need many instances of the same service running on the same hw for some reason
you're trying to run a service that's only packaged as a docker image

That said using nixos inside a docker container is an appealing proposition in that you get all the usual advantages of nix but can run it anywhere you can run docker images

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 13 points 2 months ago

I'd definitely use it (and I do) for deploying remote software and for the use cases you mentioned. Still, we can all agree that, in the context of Nixos, native derivations are superior and almost always preferred. I am currently using a flatpak of zen-browser until the derivations can get added to nixpkgs. But that's just a temporary patch that I will remove soon. I have also seen containers outperform Nix in software that strictly enforces the FHS style and doesn't play nicely in the immutable world.