docker-nixpkgs: docker images from nixpkgs

This project is a collection of docker images automatically produced with Nix and the latest nixpkgs package set. All the images are refreshed daily with the latest versions of nixpkgs.

It's also a good demonstration on how to build and publish Docker images with Nix.

Always keep your docker images fresh!

Why use Nix to build docker images?

Nix has a number of advantages over Dockerfile when producing docker images:

• builds are actually reproducible
• Nix will only rebuild the minimum set of changes
• Nix can produce automatic optimised layers for you
• nixpkgs provides automatic security updates

Example usage

Here is an example of using one of the docker images. Usage will change from image to image.

# run the curl image which has curl as an entry-point
$ docker run -ti --rm nixpkgs/curl http://ifconfig.co
180.52.248.114

List of images

Image	Description
curl	CLI only
docker-compose	CLI only
kubectl	CLI only
kubernetes-helm	CLI only
nix	nix with deps
nix-unstable	nixUnstable with deps

Channels

Name	Description
nixos-unstable	the :latest version
nixos-18.09	automatic security updates

License

Copyright (c) 2019 zimbatm and contributors.

Licensed under the MIT.