[Nix-dev] github triggered builds

[zimbatm]

Travis CI also has support for nix builds and might be easier to setup.

On Mon, 8 May 2017, 18:17 Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://nixos.org/hydra/
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/hercules-ci/hercules ( looks like still in heavy
> development but maybe usable :))
>
> 2017-05-08 18:14 GMT+01:00 Harmen <harmen at lijzij.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to see how I can make my build processes easier with nix. So
>> far
>> it's going pretty good and it's fun, although there was a lot of searching
>> online for scattered documents.
>>
>> Want I want to do (as the first thing to change to nix in production) is
>> to
>> port the building of some docker images I use for testing. The idea is to
>> have docker images build, tagged with their branch they come from, when
>> someone
>> pushes something. The building and pushing an sich work. The .nix files
>> live in
>> the repo, and with a `make docker` the image is build and uploaded. I'm
>> very
>> happy to be able to build docker images without actually having to use
>> docker
>> ;)
>>
>> So, what would be the recommended way to trigger the building process? I'm
>> currently using drone.io, but that works with containers. It works with
>> nix,
>> when I give it the nixos/nix docker image, but building a node project
>> takes
>> about 5 minutes, and drags in way too much from cache.nixos.org. I tried
>> to
>> have it make a local nix binary-cache, but there are some problems there,
>> but
>> drone also just doesn't fit the problem nicely.  Nix solves the problem of
>> versioning so much nicer than containers that I would prefer to use
>> something
>> simpler. Hydra could work, but I'm a bit intimidated by that, and would
>> like to
>> have something simpler for now.
>>
>> The LT;DR: question: is there a simple nix based build system which can be
>> triggered via git{hub,lab} hooks?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Harmen
>> (If there is a better place to ask this, let me know)
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