Nix
DevOpsDays Oct 2015
the purely functional package manager
#nixos
@garbas
DevOps today
DevOpsDays Oct 2015
Bundler, Cabal, Composer, CPAN, CRAN, CTAN, EasyInstall, GoGet, Maven, npm, NuGet, OPAM, PEAR, pip, RubyGems, ...
brew, apt-get, yum, rpm, emerge, ports, ...
virtualbox, docker, vmware, vagrant, rocket, docker, Xen, lxc, ...
Travis, Soucelabs, Jenkins, Hudson, ...
Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Fabric, ...
Don't reinvent the wheel?
DevOpsDays Oct 2015
Why Nix?
multi-user
multi-version
portable
Why Nix?
multi-user
multi-version
portable
Give me moar!
reproducability
atomicity
isolation
complete dependency
Give me moar!
reproducability
atomicity
isolation
complete dependency
Give me moar!
reproducability
atomicity
isolation
complete dependency
Give me moar!
reproducability
atomicity
isolation
complete dependency
Give me moar!
reproducability
atomicity
isolation
complete dependency
And moar!
one tool to rule them all
play nice with any tool
And moar!
one tool to rule them all
play nice with any tool
So, where is the catch?
Comprehensive manual, but no tutorials
Lack of UX in cli tools
Steep learning curve
Is this all?
Hydra
NixOS
NixOps
Thank you
NixOS conference
14. - 15. November 2015
Berlin
http://conf.nixos.org
Rok Garbas, @garbas
Nix - The purely functional package manager
By Rok Garbas
Nix - The purely functional package manager
NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable. Declarative specs and safe upgrades make NixOS a great system for DevOps use. NixOps, the NixOS cloud deployment tool, allows you to provision and manage networks of NixOS machines in environments like Amazon EC2, VirtualBox, ...
