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* [https://github.com/Infinisil/nixus Nixus] - an experimental NixOS deployment tool
* [https://github.com/Infinisil/nixus Nixus] - an experimental NixOS deployment tool
* [https://github.com/rapenne-s/bento Bento] - a NixOS fleet manager supporting remote systems not up 24/7
* [https://github.com/rapenne-s/bento Bento] - a NixOS fleet manager supporting remote systems not up 24/7
* [[krops]] - a lightweight toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally


=== Docker ===
=== Docker ===

Revision as of 06:15, 5 April 2024

This article lists applications built for and with Nix; it constitutes a listing of what may be called the Extended Nix Ecosystem (see Nix Ecosystem for the Core Nix Ecosystem).

Non-NixOS Distributions

Various applications built on top of Nix:

  • not-os - build a system firmware for embedded devices

Built with Nix

Projects which leverage Nix.

  • styx - Static site generator in Nix expression language
  • bionix - manage and execute bioinformatics pipelines
  • ethereum.nix - A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules designed to make it easier to operate Ethereum related services and infrastructure
  • nixos-mailserver - A complete and Simple NixOS Mailserver

Nix Platform

Projects which add support (e.g. for extra platforms or major capabilities) to Nix.

  • nix-darwin - NixOS modules for Darwin
  • musnix - real-time audio modules for NixOS
  • nixGl - A wrapper to run OpenGL applications outside of NixOS

Nix Tooling

Various tools built for working with the Nix Ecosystem (e.g. enhancements or alternatives to core Nix tools).

General configuration

  • home-manager - System for managing a user environment using Nix

Flakes

  • deploy-rs - Nix flake deployment tool
  • flake-utils-plus - Flake templates and helper library. Extension of below
  • flake-utils - Set of flake-building utility functions
  • flake-parts - Simplify Nix Flakes with the module system
  • snowfall - Unified configuration for systems, packages, modules, shells, templates, and more with Nix Flakes.

Archives

  • narfuse - FUSE filesystem for mounting Nix archive (NAR) files as a virtual Nix store

Clustering

  • nix-delegate - Convenient utility for distributed Nix builds

Comparison

  • nix-diff - Compare Nix derivations
  • niff - Compare two Nix expressions to determine what attributes changes
  • nvd - Nix/NixOS package version diff tool

Dependencies

  • nix-visualize - Visualize the dependencies of a given package
  • niv - Painless dependencies for Nix projects

Nix lang comprehension

  • deadnix - Removes unused code from .nix files
  • statix - Linter and suggestions for the nix programming language
  • nil - Nix Language server, an incremental analysis assistant for writing in Nix.
  • nixfmt - A formatter for Nix code
  • nixpkgs-fmt - Nix code formatter for nixpkgs

Package maintenance

Debugging

  • dwarffs - Fetches DWARF debug info files for gdb automatically from cache.nixos.org
  • nixseparatedebuginfod - Fetches debug symbols and source files for debuginfod-capables tools like gdb

Search

  • nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files
  • nix-du - Find which gc-roots take disk space in a nix store
  • nix-info - Homebrew info querying for Nix
  • userscan - Scans directories containing manually compiled programs and registers them with the Nix garbage collector
  • nix-search-cli - CLI for searching packages on search.nixos.org

Shell

Other

  • nix-bundle - package Nix attributes into single-file executables.
  • nix-user-chroot - install Nix as an unpriviliged user on any system
  • nh - a rewrite of nixos-rebuild featuring diffs with nvd and a tree of builds with nix-output-manager, as well as other quality of life features such as package searching.

Nix Operations

Operations tools for the Nix Ecosystem:

Official

  • Hydra - Nix's official continuous integration and build system.
  • NixOps - Nix's official (but unmaintained) tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or the cloud.

Deployment

  • colmena - a NixOS deployment tool
  • deploy-rs - a simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool
  • lollypops - a parallel and stateless NixOS deployment tool
  • Morph - a NixOS deployment tool
  • Nixus - an experimental NixOS deployment tool
  • Bento - a NixOS fleet manager supporting remote systems not up 24/7
  • krops - a lightweight toolkit to deploy NixOS systems, remotely or locally

Docker

  • Arion - configure Docker Compose with Nix modules
  • Nixery - ad-hoc container images from Nix

Kubernetes

  • kubenix - Kubernetes resource builder written in Nix
  • nix-kubernetes - Kubernetes deployment manager written in nix

Alternative nix implementations & parser

  • hnix (haskell, parser & evaluator)
  • rnix (rust, parser)
  • go-nix (go, parser & nix-compatible file hasher)
  • nix-idea (java, parser)

See also