Squeezing Small and Efficient Nix Containers into Nomad – Richard Brežák

In this talk from NixCon 2022, our SRE team member Richard Brežák talks about currently used solutions for containers in the Nix ecosystem and why they are unsatisfactory. After that, he presents his own way of building and deploying small and efficient Nix containers with Nomad.

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0:00 Intro
0:37 Talk starts
1:04 Nomad
1:40 Containers are the future
2:47 Benefits of switching to containers
3:04 Problem with DockerTools and ociTools
4:10 NixOS in containers
6:13 Should we be adapting NixOS?
6:33 NixNG/Blatt
7:38 Using NixNG/Blatt for containers
9:05 Future?
9:46 That's all folks!
10:31 Questions