News

• NixOS 19.09 released

• ociTools in NixOS

Katharina explains her recently merged Open Container Initiative support in NixOS.

• Industrial-strength Deployments in Three Commands

Vaibhav demonstrates how NixOps works by implementing a small deploy script from scratch.

• nix-emacs-ci

Emacs installations for continuous integration

• Setting up a Custom Nix Channel

• How to put your /nix directory on a separate device

• Strange Loop 2019: "Functional DevOps in a Dysfunctional World" by Vaibhav Sagar

• NixOS binary cache improvements

• Mobile NixOS Development Log (2)

• All Systems Go!: "Purely Functional Package Management" by Franz Pletz

• Post-mortem on recent Cachix downtime

On 6th of September, Cachix experienced 3 hours of downtime.

We’d like to let you know exactly what happened and what measures we have taken to prevent such an event from happening in the future.

• Cachix & Nix Install actions for GitHub

Start using GitHub Actions with Nix&Cachix with a simple snippet of YAML.

• Hercules CI Agent 0.5.0 with Terraform support and simpler configuration

Hercules CI Agent can now be deployed with terraform with only a few steps.

• RFC 0052 FCP, Away from static IDs

The Final Comment Period for RFC 0052 has started and, barring any blocking issues, will be merged after 2019-10-18. Your opinions, comments, and approvals are welcome!

• Tekton Pipelines - the Nix way

Building Docker images from Nix expressions in a Kubernetes cluster with the Tekton Pipeline project.

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