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As I've added software to my NixOS homelab server, I've found some things that aren't yet available in the nixpkgs repository.<\/p>\n\n
A common approach seems to be to use Docker and Docker Compose to run things in containers, especially ones that need multiple services like a web server, a database and a cache or proxy.<\/p>\n\n
I've moved my development projects from Docker to devenv<\/a>, but I still have Docker installed and available.<\/p>\n\n I knew it was easy to create a container image from a Nix-based setup, but the opposite is also true.<\/p>\n\n It's very easy to run containers within NixOS.<\/p>\n\n For example, here's how I've configured Tube Archivist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This was created using a tool called This made it easy to take a Docker Compose file and convert it to a Docker or Podman container.<\/p>\n\n My preference is to use NixOS services if they exist, but it's great to be able to do this as an alternative when needed.<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed": "\n As I've added software to my NixOS homelab server, I've found some things that aren't yet available in the nixpkgs repository.<\/p>\n\n A common approach seems to be to use Docker and Docker Compose to run things in containers, especially ones that need multiple services like a web server, a database and a cache or proxy.<\/p>\n\ncompose2nix<\/code>, but I've seen simpler examples for other services.<\/p>\n\n