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App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2022-04-27 · latest 2025-06-08

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  1. …[2]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-pkgs-dockerToo... [3]: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks/blob/205b33b515282cdf...
    comment by Nullabillity · 2025-06-08 · in Why We're Moving on from Nix
  2. …curve, etc.), describing it like this feels unusual? [0] https://github.com/railwayapp/railpack [1] https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks [2] https://github.com/coffee-cup
    comment by cybrexalpha · 2025-06-08 · in Why We're Moving on from Nix
  3. I think this is something the writer of the article would be delighted to find: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
    comment by dan0000 · 2023-04-24 · in Using Nix with Dockerfiles
  4. …ways to DIY turn that into a docker container, like pkgs.dockerTools.buildImage or nixpacks: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
    comment by VTimofeenko · 2022-10-24 · in Show HN: IHP v1.0 – Batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix
  5. …curve is not going to get better with a type system. Perhaps something like heroku buildpaks ( https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks ?) would help devs get on the Nix train.
    comment by jhillyerd · 2022-09-02 · in We want to make Nix better
  6. Sorry which distribution exactly? We utilize the python's nixpkgs versioned packages See: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks/blob/f88718efe1156671...
    comment by justjake · 2022-08-17 · in Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image
  7. …of those tools - it's a difficult problem. I apologize if my interpretation is incorrect. [0]: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks/blob/60ab563fdc9bf4fb...
    comment by jbboehr · 2022-08-17 · in Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image
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    Nixpacks: App source and Nix packages and Docker = Image
    story by todsacerdoti · 2022-07-06 · 0 comments
  9. …but I wish it offered something with Nix in the build process like Railway has recently introduced. https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
    comment by yewenjie · 2022-05-16 · in Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic
  10. …solutions. [1] https://github.com/dokku/lambda-builder [2] https://github.com/replicate/cog [3] https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
    comment by josegonzalez · 2022-04-27 · in Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)