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Tutorials

• Install Nix
  • Verify installation
• Ad hoc developer environments
  • What is a shell environment?
  • When are shell environments useful?
  • Searching package attribute names
  • Ad hoc shell environments
  • Beyond tooling: Python libraries
  • Towards reproducibility
  • References
  • Next steps
• Reproducible interpreted scripts
  • Requirements
  • A trivial script with non-trivial dependencies
  • The script
  • Next steps
• Nix language basics
  • Overview
  • Reading the Nix language without fear
  • Names and values
  • Functions
  • Function libraries
  • Impurities
  • Derivations
  • Worked examples
  • References
  • Next steps
• Towards reproducibility: pinning Nixpkgs
  • Pinning packages with URLs inside a Nix expression
  • Dependency management with niv
  • Next steps
• Declarative and reproducible developer environments
  • When are declarative shell environments useful?
  • Getting started
  • Customizing your developer environment
  • direnv: Automatically activating the environment on directory change
  • Next steps
• Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
  • Caching builds using Cachix
  • Setting up GitHub Actions
  • Next steps
• Set up a development environment
• Building and running Docker images
  • Prerequisites
  • Build your first container
  • Run the container
  • Working with Docker images
  • Next steps
• Building a bootable ISO image
  • Next steps
• Deploying NixOS using Terraform
  • Booting NixOS image
  • Deploying NixOS changes
  • Caveats
  • Next steps
• Installing NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
  • Booting NixOS live image
  • Getting internet connection
  • Updating firmware
  • Installing NixOS
  • Making changes
  • Next steps
• NixOS virtual machines
  • What will you learn?
  • What do you need?
  • Starting from the default NixOS configuration
  • Creating a QEMU based virtual machine using a configuration
  • Running the virtual machine
• References
• Integration testing using virtual machines (VMs)
  • Testing a typical web application backed by PostgreSQL
  • Writing the test
  • Running tests
  • Developing and debugging tests
  • Next steps
• Cross compilation
  • What’s a target platform?
  • Pinning Nixpkgs
  • Determining the host platform config
  • Choosing the host platform with Nix
  • Specifying the host platform
  • Cross compiling for the first time
  • Real-world cross compiling of a Hello World example
  • Developer environment with a cross compiler
  • Next steps

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