Nix docker image

STATUS: Deprecated: see https://github.com/nix-community/docker-nixpkgs

This improves on top of the nixos/nix image as it removes all Alpine Linux dependencies.

The image doesn't contain any channels to reduce the default image size and encourage users to fully pin their dependency set.

Usage

FROM nixorg/nix:latest
RUN nix run -f channel:nixos-18.03 hello -c hello

CircleCI

CircleCI assumes that git and openssh are available in the container to clone the repository. This is out of our control and we therefor cannot rely on nix-shell to pull in these dependencies.

Another image at nixorg/nix:circleci is published that contains these additional dependencies.

This branch is regularily rebased on top of master.

Update

The ./update.sh script is used to get the latest nix release.

TODO

• /etc/passwd contains a lot of useless entries

See also

• nixos/nix: published from the nixos/nix repo
• lnl7/nix: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-docker