nix-infrastructure

What problem does it solve?

This Skill establishes a "localhost === CI === production" paradigm using Nix, ensuring consistent and reproducible infrastructure across all environments, from local development to cloud deployment. It eliminates environment drift and simplifies operations.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Port Registry: Centralizes port allocation to prevent conflicts and ensure consistency across all services and environments.
• process-compose-flake: Provides Nix-native local service orchestration, replacing traditional docker-compose with a declarative approach.
• nix2container: Generates minimal OCI container images directly from Nix, eliminating Dockerfiles and ensuring tiny, reproducible artifacts.
• CI/CD & Deployment: Integrates with GitHub Actions, Cachix, and Colmena for efficient, cached builds and multi-host deployments, streamlining your entire release process.
• Use Case: A team needs to set up a new microservice with a fully reproducible development and deployment pipeline. They can use this skill to define services with process-compose-flake, build container images with nix2container, and configure CI/CD to leverage Cachix for fast builds.

Quick Start

Review the 'flake.nix' and 'flake/process-compose.nix' files to ensure they follow the recommended patterns for Nix-native service orchestration and container image generation.