List of interesting resources about Nix/NixOS and the ecosystem

Nix

• Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment
• Talk "Nix: A Whirlwind Tour" Slides, Video: Part 1, Part 2 by ocharles
• Nix Language Primer
• Quickly locate nix packages with specific files
• Easy dependency management for Nix projects
• Nix - A One Pager

Nix integration

• Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• lorri is a nix-shell replacement for project development. lorri is based around fast direnv integration for robust CLI and editor integration.

NixOS

• NixOS: the Nix based operating system
• NixOS in Production
• Installing NixOS

NixOps

• Charon: Declarative Provisioning and Deployment (NixOps was formerly known as Charon)

DisNix

• Atomic Upgrading of Distributed Systems
• See here for more blog posts and papers

Testing

• Automating System Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines

The Zalora Platform

• Microgram
• Defnix
• Upcast
• Talk: "The Zalora Platform", Slides by proger

Blog Posts

• Building docker containers from scratch using Nix
• Deploying A Haskell Web Service With Nix
• Install NixOS on a MacBook Air
• My experience of using NixOps as an Ansible user
• Nix by example
• Nix on Windows
• Nix + OSX + HaskellNG = Dependency Paradise?
• How to use NixOps in a team
• Quick and Easy Nixpkgs Pinning