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Opinionated guides to getting things done in the Nix ecosystem. Nix, NixOS, packaging, Linux, deployment, build systems, reproducible, developer en_US

Welcome to nix.dev

:::{topic} Introduction 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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:maxdepth: 3

tutorials/index.rst
templates/index.rst
anti-patterns/index.rst
reference/index.rst
faq.rst
recommended-reading.rst
influences.rst
glossary.rst