nix
3 notes tagged nix in the Platform ops topic. Delivery and operations: pipelines, deploys, monitoring and reproducible development environments.
- Devbox in production: our success story
How we transformed our development and deployment process with Devbox.
- Why Docker builds drift and how Nix pins them: unstable packages, shadow copies, nixpkgs and fixed hashes
Why the same Dockerfile gives different images over time, and how Nix fixes it with pinned nixpkgs, fixed-output derivations and layered image builds.
- Why we use Devbox, from Docker's limits to Nix shells, flakes, services and plugins
Why Dwarves moved local development from Docker to Devbox, how it compares with plain Nix, and how Nix shells, flakes, Devbox services and plugins work.