Happy to announce that I finally published the source of Nixery at github.com/google/nixery yesterday!
Nixery is a tiny service that implements Docker’s registry protocol for serving images - but instead of serving pre-built images it creates them on-demand from a set of packages specified in the image name.
For example, pulling an image called bash/htop/curl from Nixery gives you an image with, well, those three programs. This sprung out of my previous idea for a Nix controller in Kubernetes because it turns out to be quite powerful, despite the simplicity.
Future plans for this are focused on two main areas:
- Implementing support for private Nix repositories. See this issue for more background information.
- Support deployments inside of Kubernetes clusters to let Nixery become a part of a cluster’s deployment infrastructure. See this issue for more background!
Feel free to play around with the demo instance (though be aware that it’s a tiny setup and won’t perform particularly well if people hammer it), suggest features, retweet the announcement tweet (or make your own!) and so on.
If I manage to tackle the two things mentioned above in time, I’m planning to talk about this at NixCon.
PS: If someone wants to contribute a more interesting logo, please do!