Tutorials overview #572
Description
This tracking issue is an outline of tutorials we want to present on nix.dev, originally designed in the 2023 documentation project "Learning Journey". It is continuously updated as we better understand how beginners approach the Nix ecosystem.
Please check existing tutorial requests before submitting new proposals.
Outline
- Temporary environments
- Ad hoc shell environments
- Reproducible interpreted scripts
- Declarative shell environments
- Nix language basics
- Customisable packages
- Overlays #116
- Packaging existing software
- Build phases (with
mkDerivation) #603 - Package parameters and overrides (with
callPackage) #651 - Working with local files
- Debugging builds
- Nix language deep dive (with
nix repl) #579 - Declarative configurations
- Module system basics
- Declarative user environments (with Home Manager) #129
- Editor configuration with Home Manager (Neovim, Emacs, VS Code)
- Declarative macOS configuration (with
nix-darwin) - Declarative Linux configuration (with
system-manager) - NixOS in a virtual machine
- Install NixOS #738
- NixOS on a Raspberry Pi
- Module system deep dive
- Build, test, and deploy software
- Setting up a binary cache #1012
- Setting up distributed builds #1013
- Cross compilation
- Integration testing with NixOS virtual machines
- Provisioning remote machines #1014
- Continuous integration with GitHub Actions
- Remote NixOS installation (with
nixos-anywhere) - Build and run NixOS containers
- Build and run Docker images
- Deploy NixOS using Terraform
Other tasks:
How you can help
- Tell us what's important to you, by adding 👍 on issues for tutorials that you would like to get addressed.
- If you find helpful, freely licensed tutorials, open an issue
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