services-flake

Note

🚧 Work in Progress

NixOS-like services for Nix flakes, as a process-compose-flake module (based on flake-parts).

Getting Started

TODO

(But see ./test/flake.nix)

Services available

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Redis
• Redis Cluster
• Elasticsearch
• ...

A note on process working directory

The dataDir of these services tend to take relative paths, which are usually relative to the project root. As such, when you run these services using nix run, their data files are created relative to whichever directory you are in. If you want these data files to always reside relative to the project directory, instead of using nix run consider wrapping the process-compose packages in script, via either mission-control module or a justfile. The example uses the latter.

Contributing

• If you are adding a new service, see https://github.com/cachix/devenv/tree/main/src/modules/services for inspiration.
• When opening a PR, note that we do not have CI yet, so please run nix run nixpkgs#nixci locally on your NixOS machine.
• For contributing to docs, see https://zero-to-flakes.com/about#contributing

Credits

Thanks to the devenv project on which much of our services implementation is based on.

FAQ

Why not re-use devenv service modules?

This is currently not possible (nor prioritized by the devenv project), which is why we must create our own services. See https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/75