Earlier this month I mentioned on Mastodon that I was replacing a Docker-based local development environment at my day job with a Nix-based one, orchestrated with overmind and a justfile. There was quite a lot of interest in particular in how overmind and just could be used to replace a container / compose-based local development. While I can’t share the details of the significantly more complex migration I did at my day job (yet!

Some folks on the internet were interested in how I had managed to ditch Docker for local development. This is a slightly overdue write up on how I typically do things now with Nix, Overmind and Just.

  • JeezyOPEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    NixOS on WSL2 is actually my development environment of choice these days! (With my tiling window manager komorebi, of course! 😀)

    • coehlEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Yep. That’s my personal open source project setup. I love nixos. It’s everything I like about dockerfile and a daily driver all rolled into one.

      Tall ask for the workplace with a bunch of windows only folks, though, unfortunately.

      Edit: I just realized you said nixos on WSL2. My bad. That’s freaking awesome, and that window manager is slick. Nice digs.

      I have to have to parity with our deployments in DevOps, where debian is preferred. It’s not the worst. But I think I’m going to make a separate distro for my own personal Linux work, like you did.

      I had to use Windows since I do research and development on our development team architecture. Gotta have parity there too. But that doesn’t mean I can’t cheat a bit like you, lol.