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Welcome to nix.dev

The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit to achieve:

• {ref}Reproducible development environments <ad-hoc-envs>.
• Easy installation of software over URLs.
• Easy transfer of software environments between computers.
• {ref}Declarative specification of Linux machines <deploying-nixos-using-terraform>.
• {ref}Reproducible integration testing using virtual machines <integration-testing-vms>.
• Avoidance of version conflicts with already installed software.
• Installing software from source code.
• {ref}Transparent build caching using binary caches <github-actions>.
• Strong support for software auditability.
• {ref}First-class cross compilation support <cross-compilation>.
• Remote builds.
• Remote deployments.
• Atomic upgrades and rollbacks.

This documentation supplements the official Nix, NixOS, Nixpkgs and NixOps manuals.

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tutorials/install-nix.md
tutorials/first-steps/index.md
tutorials/nixos/index.md
tutorials/cross-compilation.md

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:caption: Recipes
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recipes/*
anti-patterns/*
templates/*

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:caption: Reference
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Nix Reference Manual <https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/>
Nixpkgs Manual <https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/>
NixOS Manual <https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/>
reference/pinning-nixpkgs.md
reference/glossary.md
recommended-reading.md
influences.md

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:caption: Contributing
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contributing/how-to-contribute.md
contributing/how-to-get-help.md
contributing/documentation.md
contributing/writing-a-tutorial.md