Nix Resources

Here we collect some supplementary resources regarding the nix ecosystem.

Flakes

The canonical introduction to flakes are the following three posts from Tweag.io's Eelco Dolstra:

• Part 1: An introduction and tutorial
• Part 2: Evaluation caching
• Part 3: Managing NixOS systems Some other references:
• Zimbatm as a nice running log
• Nix Wiki entry

HPC Usage

Briefly, nix is installed on the login node and ports have been forwarded to ensure that the nodes can access the nix-daemon. This is similar in spirit to the GRICAD setup.