Nix ecosystem: Difference between revisions

| ''Description''

| ''Use''

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| [[Nix Package Manager | Nix]]

| A package manager that parses Nix expressions specifying reproducible build, putting the result in a store address with a hash of the dependency tree, sidestepping dependency hell and supporting multiversion installs and rollbacks.

| Reproducible builds & package management in Linux & Darwin

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| [[NixOS]]

| A Linux distribution with ''all'' components built by Nix, and thus supporting reproducible and declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks.  

| Declaratively configure desktops, servers & clusters

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| [[Nixpkgs]]

| The largest community maintained Nix package and NixOS module repository; standard releases of NixOS are hosted here.

|  Share Nix packages & NixOS modules

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| [[NixOps]]

| A Nix based deployment and provisioning tool allowing declarative specification of remote NixOS systems, VMs and containers; supports AWS, Hetzner, GCE and some other cloud providers out of box.

| Deploy & provision NixOS systems, VMs & containers

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| [[Hydra]]

| A Nix based continuous build system.

|  CI build farms

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