From Kubernetes to Nix

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? Ádám from LastPass has a few reasons.

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Featuring:

• Ádám Szücs-Mátyás – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Software needs to be more expensive
• NASA moon rover lunar terrain vehicle proposals

Interview

• Devenv

Remote dev environments

• Amazon Workspaces
• VScode code-server
• Gitpod
• Codespaces

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:52)

3. Sponsor: Synadia (00:16:24)

https://www.synadia.com/changelog

4. Ádám Szücs-Mátyás (00:20:11)

5. Moving from Kubernetes (00:21:40)

6. Why Nix? (00:25:11)

7. Benefits of Nix (00:26:35)

8. What is KIND? (00:27:38)

9. Nix dev environment (00:28:11)

10. Why run Kubernetes in a Docker? (00:30:24)

11. Setting up Nix (00:31:24)

12. What is a flake (00:34:46)

13. It's not easy (00:36:57)

14. What are builds? (00:40:39)

15. Vs python virtual environment (00:44:09)

16. Nix dev improvements (00:45:22)

17. Different debugging mindset (00:48:31)

18. Developer feedback (00:51:14)

19. Justin's Nix issues (00:54:10)

20. Where to rezch out (00:57:09)

21. Sponsor: Sentry (00:57:49)

https://blog.sentry.io/ai-powered-autofix-debugs-and-fixes-your-code-in-minutes/?utm_source=changelog-news

22. The closer (01:01:27)

23. Outro (01:13:34)