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Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

18 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2019-08-17 · latest 2025-11-25

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  1. I've been very happy with nixos-generators: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators They let you produce SD-card images with custom NixOS'es. Very useful when you want an exact software layout, and exact system settings, like…
    comment by sshine · 2025-11-25 · in A New Raspberry Pi Imager
  2. …require flakes. On the topic of deploying flakes to consumer users. I'm currently exploring using https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators to create pre-made install iso's for a full "batteries included" experience. You can just…
    comment by jquaint · 2025-09-11 · in Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life
  3. …Definitely used this for deploying VMs to cloud providers, haven't tried the VMWare one yet though. https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
    comment by jchw · 2025-06-28 · in bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile
  4. …my Ubuntu desktop with i3wm for me. [0]: nixos-generators is magical when you first try it! https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators (Fine print: Of course with the benefit of hindsight I now know that it's merely a dumb wrapper…
    comment by codethief · 2025-05-26 · in I think it's time to give Nix a chance
  5. yes to all. https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
    comment by tkz1312 · 2024-10-02 · in NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't
  6. …minimal NixOS VMs without systemd? - [0] https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image - [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
    comment by sunshine-o · 2024-05-08 · in Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
  7. …Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators It's interesting to scroll through nix-darwin options, I wasn't even aware of some useful…
    comment by igorramazanov · 2024-04-16 · in Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
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    NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
    story by peter_d_sherman · 2024-03-26 · 11 comments
  9. If Hetzner allows custom images, then this tool may help: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators Cloud-init can be clumsy to get going, but it’s possible.
    comment by ochoseis · 2024-01-15 · in NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
  10. …supported images. Sibling comment mentions that nix has ways to build NixOS VM images (e.g. https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators has a generator specifically for Linode). Another option is to use nixos-infect, which will…
    comment by rgoulter · 2023-08-13 · in NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
  11. …Rust all day - you don't need to know how to setup rust at all, the `devShell` provides it). [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
    comment by tylerjl · 2023-01-23 · in Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix
  12. If you want to build custom images just use https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators It's documentation is on point.
    comment by Mic92 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  13. One way is to use this project: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators It's just a small wrapper but it shows you most of the targets available.
    comment by zimbatm · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  14. …[0] https://github.com/Shopify/comma [1] https://github.com/Lassulus/nix-autobahn [2] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators [3] https://matthewbauer.us/blog/beginners-guide-to-cross.html [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/…
    comment by siraben · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
  15. …generate other images[2] [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintaine... [2] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators edit: I believe you can use [2] even for AWS images, the raw and qcow2 should work on EC2 as…
    comment by takeda · 2020-06-03 · in A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
  16. …story is "best in class". you can take any nixos configuration and turn it into a cloud image https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators You can take any nix package and turn it into a docker image…
    comment by arianvanp · 2020-04-15 · in My experience with NixOS
  17. …and it could generate an image of it. Community also came up with other generators [1]. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
    comment by takeda · 2020-02-05 · in Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
  18. see also https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators/
    comment by zimbatm · 2019-08-17 · in Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix