Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix

Re:Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix by zimbatm on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:43PM (#18114349)

Nix and Docker integration is almost optimal now, no other tooling provides that type of functionality

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Re:Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix by jarvuschris on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:41PM (#18123288)

[Habitat](http://habitat.sh/) builds on the concepts in Nix, and here is a relatively old experiment I found on optimizing Docker layering with it: https://github.com/chetan/habitat-dockerize-layers

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Re:Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix by roberthensing on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:31PM (#18126264)

What I like about Nix is that this kind of functionality can be integrated into the Nixpkgs package set, as a function over packages. It's just as easy as writing a machine image or an virtual machine network test, because Nixpkgs has functions you can use for those as well.

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