services-flake provides declarative, composable, and reproducible services for Nix development environment, and is based on flake-parts. Enabling users to have NixOS-like service on macOS and Linux.
services-flake
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services-flake: Services simplified for Dev/CI workflows
Shivaraj B H will demonstrate using services-flake to declaratively manage service dependencies (for example, databases) of your project in the Nix development environment and re-use the same configuration for testing in your CI workflow. This talk builds upon my lightning talk from NixCon 2024, diving deeper into the topic with additional insights.
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Replacing docker-compose with Nix for development
How does services-flake solve them?
Now that we have all the answers, it’s time to replace docker-compose in NY with services-flake. We will only focus on a few services to keep it simple; for more details, refer to the PR.
Sharing services-flake modules deserves a separate post, so we will delve into this topic more in the next post.
These were the exact problems services-flake was designed to solve. Along with running services natively, it also integrates with your project’s
flake.nix.