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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 compose2nix<\/code>, but I've seen simpler examples for other services.<\/p>\n\n

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 ", "format": "full_html", "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\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 compose2nix<\/code>, but I've seen simpler examples for other services.<\/p>\n\n

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 ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-04-21T01:21:23+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "c46666fe3bbd6c27133967d0e0f292cb", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }