[Nix-dev] nix-bundle: Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere

[Matthew Bauer]

> Any chance this could be combined with lethalman's work on turning
> derivations into docker containers?

Do you have a link to this project? All I can find is this blog post:
http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2016/04/cheap-docker-images-with-nix_15.html

We can get most of the advantages of the container features of Docker
using just cgroups/namespaces. The main advantage of using Docker is
that lots of different systems support it. The Open Container standard
might be an easier way to go: it's just a folder with a /config.json
file:
https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Peter Hoeg <peter at hoeg.com> wrote:
> Nice work Matthew!
>
>>> I would vote for mirroring this tool in nixos github namespace (or even
>>> trying to make this project official one) as it can have big impact of
>>> propagating/implementing nix ideas into environments where it's not
>>> straight forward to use it.
>
>
> Any chance this could be combined with lethalman's work on turning
> derivations into docker containers? There seems to be a fair amount of
> overlap and having a generic mechanism to create a runable closure means
> we could relatively easily support the containerization mechanism and/or
> application distribution format of the day.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter
>
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