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#05 - NixOS Weekly

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick

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A DevSecOps framework powered by Nix and the NixOS module system. Our goal is to help people setup a powerful CI/CD system in just a few steps, in any provider, while lowering the barrier to entry for the community.

The Ongoing effort at bumping LLVM and macOS SDK.

Tutorials & Resources

A Terraform provider for declaratively managing Hydra projects and jobsets, Determinate Systems' first open source release.

A NixOS module to help run modded minecraft servers, as a Nix flake, as well as a simple rsync wrapper script to help manage remote state of such a server.

University lecture + assignment + tutorial on how to build a shell for the nix build sandbox with automated tests suite

Configured for Nix, it gives you pre-built, ephemeral reproducible development environments in the cloud.

Experimental attempt of packaging a demanding and somewhat complex (in terms of wine setup) wine application by dynamically creating a wine prefix from the nix store path of a generated wrapper script.

Or how to teach your initrd to add features to a filesystem on bootup.

A Nix Flake to build NixOS and run it on one of several KVM-Hypervisors (cloud-hypervisor, qemu, firecracker, kvmtool, crosvm).

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