This project is a collection of docker images automatically produced with Nix and the latest nixpkgs package set. It even refreshes every morning a 4:00 UTC thanks to the Gitlab CI schedules.

It's also a good demonstration on how to build and publish Docker images with Nix.

Always keep your docker images fresh!

Why use Nix to build docker images?

Nix has a number of advantages over Dockerfile when producing docker images:

builds are actually reproducible
Nix will only rebuild the minimum set of changes
Nix can produce automatic optimised layers for you
nixpkgs provides automatic security updates

Example usage

Here is an example of using one of the docker images. Usage will change from image to image.

# the user must have an account at gitlab
$ docker login registry.gitlab.com
# run the curl image which has curl as an entry-point
$ docker run -ti --rm registry.gitlab.com/zimbatm/docker-nixpkgs/curl http://ifconfig.co
180.52.248.114

List of images

Image	Description
curl	CLI only
docker-compose	CLI only
kubectl	CLI only
kubernetes-helm	CLI only
nix	nix with deps
nix-unstable	nixUnstable with deps

Channels

Name	Description
nixos-unstable	the :latest version
nixos-18.09	automatic security updates