[Nix-dev] deploying nix-built software to non-nix linux systems

[Anders Papitto]

Hello,

I'm interested in using nix/nixos to build an application with its
full set of dependencies, and then deploy it to non-nixos machines as
a self-contained package (up to and including the system libraries),
without root privileges. Ideally I would like to not require that any
nix tools be available on the target system. The perfect workflow
would be something like

# on any linux system
$ wget https://some/path/to/my-app.tar.gz
$ tar -xf my-app.tar.gz
$ ./my-app/bin/my-app # run the application -> it should not try to
access anything outside ./my-app

Is this possible? I haven't been able to find any resources on
deploying to a non-nix systems.

- Anders Papitto