Everything about nix
Generating a docker image with nix
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There it is. The final installment.
Over the course of this series, we've built a very useful Rust web service that shows us colored ASCII art cats, and we've packaged it with docker, and deployed it to https://fly.io.
Making a dev shell with nix flakes
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In the previous chapter, we've made a nix "dev shell" that contained the fly.io command-line utility, "flyctl".
Trying to use nix
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Now that my website is deployed as a container image, I wanted to give
nix a try. I'm still doing it the old-fashioned way right
now: with a Dockerfile
, running cargo
in a "builder" image, copying stuff
out of there into a slimmer image (that still has an Ubuntu base, even though
distroless images are a
thing now).
But why?
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