Bryan Honof
@bjth.xyz
We need a Grafana dashboard for this.
September 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We need a Grafana dashboard for this.
Reposted by Bryan Honof
Reposted by Bryan Honof
Every new tool or abstraction we adopt solves one problem but creates others.
This is the story of discovering Nix. Of stepping away from the madness of layer upon layer of abstraction.
Of learning to love a deterministic approach to building software.
This is the story of discovering Nix. Of stepping away from the madness of layer upon layer of abstraction.
Of learning to love a deterministic approach to building software.
Flox | The Experienced Novice Dives Into Nix
Every new tool or abstraction we add—containers, microservices, serverless—solves one problem but creates others. This is the story of how I discovered Nix, left behind the madness of endless…
buff.ly
March 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Every new tool or abstraction we adopt solves one problem but creates others.
This is the story of discovering Nix. Of stepping away from the madness of layer upon layer of abstraction.
Of learning to love a deterministic approach to building software.
This is the story of discovering Nix. Of stepping away from the madness of layer upon layer of abstraction.
Of learning to love a deterministic approach to building software.
I see it’s turning up more and more at events like DevOpsDays. The community also organises meet-ups around the world, so you could try your luck there. There’s also and official matrix channel listed on the website. 😁
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I see it’s turning up more and more at events like DevOpsDays. The community also organises meet-ups around the world, so you could try your luck there. There’s also and official matrix channel listed on the website. 😁
I’ll ask @tomberek.bsky.social to upload them. 😉
March 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’ll ask @tomberek.bsky.social to upload them. 😉
I’ll be speaking at Cloud Native Days LA in #SCaLE22x about leveraging #nix / #nixos to build pretty small container images. I’ll make an attempt at showing you the benefits of using something like Nix to do this, and daydream about possible future integrations. Looking forward to seeing you there!
March 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of my favourite tricks in the book. Mitchell Hashimoto has a very good blog post about this, I recommend giving that a read. mitchellh.com/writing/nix-...
Using Nix with Dockerfiles
mitchellh.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
One of my favourite tricks in the book. Mitchell Hashimoto has a very good blog post about this, I recommend giving that a read. mitchellh.com/writing/nix-...
I'm a bit vague on how silverblue actually does its package management. Does it support RPMs like Fedora does? If so, we do ship an RPM flox.dev/docs/install...
Install Flox - Flox Docs
Install or upgrade Flox
flox.dev
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm a bit vague on how silverblue actually does its package management. Does it support RPMs like Fedora does? If so, we do ship an RPM flox.dev/docs/install...
I'll also create a ticket to look into the excessive layer count. Looking into it with dive myself, there are a few things in there which I think we can safely remove already.
February 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'll also create a ticket to look into the excessive layer count. Looking into it with dive myself, there are a few things in there which I think we can safely remove already.
Okay, then I get the comment. I'll admit that the container is quite sizable, and there are probably a few paths in there that we could shave off that aren't contributing much right now. But it should provide you with a fairly accurate environment to play around in.
February 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Okay, then I get the comment. I'll admit that the container is quite sizable, and there are probably a few paths in there that we could shave off that aren't contributing much right now. But it should provide you with a fairly accurate environment to play around in.
Oh, wait. Are you doing a flox containerize of one of your environments, or are you docker pulling one of our images?
February 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Oh, wait. Are you doing a flox containerize of one of your environments, or are you docker pulling one of our images?
This is because we use nixpkgs' dockerTools.steamLayeredImage function under the hood. This puts every single dependency of your environment into its own image layer. Now, we could expose an option to tell the function the max layers it's allowed to use.
Out of curiosity, why is this surprising?
Out of curiosity, why is this surprising?
February 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is because we use nixpkgs' dockerTools.steamLayeredImage function under the hood. This puts every single dependency of your environment into its own image layer. Now, we could expose an option to tell the function the max layers it's allowed to use.
Out of curiosity, why is this surprising?
Out of curiosity, why is this surprising?
Reposted by Bryan Honof
Flox and Containers = the Best of Both Worlds 🌍
🛠️ Develop locally with Flox for convenience
📦 Deploy Flox environments as containerized artifacts for CI and prod
🔁 Get reproducibility with determinism and ⛔ no bloat
[https://buff.ly/4hetTrW]
🛠️ Develop locally with Flox for convenience
📦 Deploy Flox environments as containerized artifacts for CI and prod
🔁 Get reproducibility with determinism and ⛔ no bloat
[https://buff.ly/4hetTrW]
February 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Flox and Containers = the Best of Both Worlds 🌍
🛠️ Develop locally with Flox for convenience
📦 Deploy Flox environments as containerized artifacts for CI and prod
🔁 Get reproducibility with determinism and ⛔ no bloat
[https://buff.ly/4hetTrW]
🛠️ Develop locally with Flox for convenience
📦 Deploy Flox environments as containerized artifacts for CI and prod
🔁 Get reproducibility with determinism and ⛔ no bloat
[https://buff.ly/4hetTrW]
Some of you may know that I play in a metal band in my spare time. A year ago, we released our first EP, "Set Me Free". To celebrate, we're finally releasing our live video we made that night! I'd really appreciate it if you gave it a listen. 😁
Previse - Set Me Free (Official Live Video)
YouTube video by Previse
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January 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Some of you may know that I play in a metal band in my spare time. A year ago, we released our first EP, "Set Me Free". To celebrate, we're finally releasing our live video we made that night! I'd really appreciate it if you gave it a listen. 😁
I call it ancient software, is that okay?
December 13, 2024 at 8:24 PM
I call it ancient software, is that okay?
Been doing the git commit --allow-empty-message myself. Talk is cheap, show me the code. 😁
November 1, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Been doing the git commit --allow-empty-message myself. Talk is cheap, show me the code. 😁
Meant to type DevOps, got autocorrect to DevOpsDays, sorry. 🙃
October 26, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Meant to type DevOps, got autocorrect to DevOpsDays, sorry. 🙃
Oh, there’s also this pretty recent post which might be of interest to you. medium.com/@pierre_4965...
Flox: better alternative to Dev Containers
I was still in pain with my development environment setup despite using Dev Containers — then I discovered Flox.
medium.com
October 26, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Oh, there’s also this pretty recent post which might be of interest to you. medium.com/@pierre_4965...
Here are some of my favourite resources.
mitchellh.com/writing/nix-...
nix.dev/index.html
flox.dev/blog/making-...
mitchellh.com/writing/nix-...
nix.dev/index.html
flox.dev/blog/making-...
October 26, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Here are some of my favourite resources.
mitchellh.com/writing/nix-...
nix.dev/index.html
flox.dev/blog/making-...
mitchellh.com/writing/nix-...
nix.dev/index.html
flox.dev/blog/making-...
When it comes to DevOpsDays specifically, I’ve used it to provide all the tools necessary to bootstrap and maintain infrastructure. As well as tried using it as a container generator. The process is quite nice once you get over the language. At @flox.dev we’re also trying to make this easier still.
October 26, 2024 at 6:33 AM
When it comes to DevOpsDays specifically, I’ve used it to provide all the tools necessary to bootstrap and maintain infrastructure. As well as tried using it as a container generator. The process is quite nice once you get over the language. At @flox.dev we’re also trying to make this easier still.