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The day I broke my Nix store (and my NixOS)

2024-02-162024-02-29

Nix and NixOS are reputed for their reproducibility. I’ve been using it for a few years with great satisfaction, never believing that somehow the Nix store (holding Nix packages and binaries) could somehow be corrupted into not following this sacro-saint reproducibility. Updating NixOS, what could go wrong? NixOS system update or upgrade is as simple…

Automated, Reproducible and Secure Development & CI environments: Package Management (1/3)

2023-08-312023-08-31

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Setting-up local development environment is a pain. Make it double with matching CI configuration. Packages and tools to install, local configurations, secrets, deployment… Developers often loose hours – if not days – before being able to run a simple make build or deploy a local instance. This series of article will guide you through patterns…