fasterthanli.me

Mar 05, 2023

8 minute read

rust · nix

We've achieved our goals already with this series: we have a web service written in Rust, built into a Docker image with nix, with a nice dev shell, that we can deploy to fly.io.

Generating a docker image with nix

Mar 05, 2023

12 minute read

nix · rust

There it is. The final instalment.

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

Mar 05, 2023

12 minute read

nix

In the previous chapter, we've made a nix "dev shell" that contained the fly.io command-line utility, "flyctl".

Learning Nix from the bottom up

Mar 05, 2023

16 minute read

nix

Remember the snapshot we made allll the way back in Part 1? Now's the time to use it.

Well, make sure you've committed and pushed all your changes, but when you're ready, let's go back in time to before we installed anything catscii-specific in our VM.

Trying to use nix

Nov 15, 2022

3 minute read

rust · nix

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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But why?