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Brings native understanding of Nix packages to containerd

12 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2023-09-06 · latest 2025-12-18

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  1. …You can then run the containers on Docker or Kubernetes without having to build heavy images. [0] https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
    comment by madjam002 · 2025-12-18 · in Systemd v259
  2. https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter/blob/main/doc...
    comment by based2 · 2025-11-16 · in Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
  3. seems similar to this https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter so kind of allowing pull images from nix store, mounting shared host nix store per node into each container, incremental fast rebuilds, generating basic pod configs are…
    comment by dlahoda · 2025-11-16 · in Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
  4. …), and [even run Nix-generated environments directly in containerd through a plugin]( https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter/blob/main/doc... ). I believe the former two apply to Guix as well which is also marked as "No" for…
    comment by charmonium · 2025-03-07 · in Stagex – Container-native, full-source bootstrapped, and reproducible toolchain
  5. …lets existing container systems understand a Linux package manager's packages as individual layers? https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
    comment by pxc · 2024-07-26 · in Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
  6. Not super recent, but nix-snapshotter is one that I'd call awesome(but I'm also a k8s fanboi): https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37407758
    comment by nurple · 2024-04-17 · in Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
  7. …of complexity in the runtimes trying to work around how images work (like remote snapshotters). [0] https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
    comment by nurple · 2024-03-27 · in The What, Why and How of Containers
  8. Does anyone here have any experience using https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter ? I build a lot of Docker images using Nix, and while yes it’s generally more pleasant than using Dockerfiles, the 128 layer limit is really annoying…
    comment by madjam002 · 2024-03-15 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  9. …putting your project derivation into dockerTools.buildImage? This is addressed in the readme FAQ. https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter#faq If you're running Nix-based images on Kubernetes, seems like this tool has reduced…
    comment by rgoulter · 2023-09-07 · in Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd
  10. …every time I got the impression that it uses the node's nix daemon. From the project readme's FAQ https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter#faq > What's the difference between this and a nix-in-docker? > If you run nix inside a…
    comment by rgoulter · 2023-09-07 · in Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd
  11. …as a full deployment Nix expression. See the README's asciinema and this file as an example: https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter/blob/v0.1.0/e...
    comment by hinshun · 2023-09-06 · in Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd
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    story by hinshun · 2023-09-06 · 34 comments