News

Announcements

• Announcing Nixpkgs Database

A database and search engine for the entire history of each package at Nixpkgs.

• Cachix: write access control for binary caches

The trust of who created binary cache contents comes from who owns the private signing key.

This approach has a number of disadvantages when it comes to lifecycle in teams, so API tokens are now the default way to manage write access.

• NixOS 21.03 Call for Release Manager

• nixpkgs: Python 2.7 packages are no longer built

• nixpkgs: Haskell packages now follow nightly

• Mach-nix now has conda packages as a backend

• Running NixOS on Pinecube

• Our New Nix Deployment Tool: deploy-rs

Tutorials

• How to Setup Prometheus, Grafana and Loki on NixOS

• Deploying NixOS using Terraform

• Setting up i3 on Thinkpads running NixOS

• How to use NixOS for lightweight integration tests

• Lightweight Linux VMs on NixOS

• XMonad + Polybar on NixOS

Resources

• Eight Months of NixOS

• One week of NixOS

• Moving into NixOS

• Automatically OCR scanned PDFs in NixOS

Annotated code showing you how to automatically create searchable scans of all the documents you receive in the post.

Jobs

• Internal Tooling & SRE at NoRedInk - Nix, Haskell, k8s

• DevOps Engineer (Munich or Remote)

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