Introduction to Nix and NixOS

Philip Potter

Future Tooling - Tuesday,2/2/2016 12:20 - B3.019

"Many things can go wrong in a deployment. Dependencies can be missing, conflict, have the wrong version, or be present but not configured in the appropriate PATH environment variables. Further, a deployment might need to be rolled back, requiring a rollback in all dependencies. This talk introduces and demonstrates nix, a package manager built from first principles to solve these problems. It will also talk about NixOS, a linux distribution for declarative system configuration, with demonstrations. "

Slides: http://philandstuff.github.io/intro-to-nix/

About Philip Potter

Philip is a developer at the Government Digital Service in the UK. He has experience of being on dev teams and ops teams, and managing and provisioning infrastructure in diverse environments.