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<p>I started using the Nix package manager <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles.nix/commit/af1d8d37">in September 2022</a> as a replacement for Ansible to manage my dotfiles.</p>
<p>Since then, I've switched to daily-driving NixOS as my main operating system and started to use Nix instead of Docker for some development projects.</p>
<p>Even though I'm running Linux, there's a benefit to not running containers for simple projects as well as the reproducibility that Nix provides.</p>
<p>I hadn't invested much time in using Nix as Docker replacement for Drupal projects, but this week, I've started to look at <a href="https://devenv.sh">devenv</a> - a development tool based on Nix.</p>
<p>As well as declaring and locking the package versions I need for each project, it also manages the services I need, such as PHP-FPM and MariaDB or MySQL.</p>
<p>It also configures Git hooks, test scripts and custom processes, such as running Tailwind CSS.</p>
<p>I've configured it for a few projects this week and it could be a potential Docker replacement for me.</p>
<p>If you want to see an example, <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-london-meetup/blob/main/devenv.nix">see this repo on GitHub</a>.</p>
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<p>I started using the Nix package manager <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles.nix/commit/af1d8d37">in September 2022</a> as a replacement for Ansible to manage my dotfiles.</p>
<p>Since then, I've switched to daily-driving NixOS as my main operating system and started to use Nix instead of Docker for some development projects.</p>
<p>Even though I'm running Linux, there's a benefit to not running containers for simple projects as well as the reproducibility that Nix provides.</p>
<p>I hadn't invested much time in using Nix as Docker replacement for Drupal projects, but this week, I've started to look at <a href="https://devenv.sh">devenv</a> - a development tool based on Nix.</p>
<p>As well as declaring and locking the package versions I need for each project, it also manages the services I need, such as PHP-FPM and MariaDB or MySQL.</p>
<p>It also configures Git hooks, test scripts and custom processes, such as running Tailwind CSS.</p>
<p>I've configured it for a few projects this week and it could be a potential Docker replacement for me.</p>
<p>If you want to see an example, <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-london-meetup/blob/main/devenv.nix">see this repo on GitHub</a>.</p>
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