Using Nix to build pretty small images

In this talk, Bryan will guide you through the NixPkgs' dockertools ecosystem. How to use it, what it actually does, what's cool about it, and its shortcomings will all be brought up. The Nix language is pretty weird at first to most people, so we'll start with a brief introduction to the language itself and what it's capable of. After showing the language, we'll jump head first into the so called dockertools ecosystem that NixPkgs offers.

When we've seen the basics of what NixPkgs' dockertools can do, Bryan will switch to showing some of the cool projects that are happening around containers inside the Nix ecosystem. The spotlight will be directed at tools like kubenix and nix-snapshotter. We'll see how these tools bring a somewhat native understanding of Nix's store model and expression language into the cloud native ecosystem.

Bryan strongly believes that the cloud native industry and Nix are better together, so he'll close off by showing what the future holds, and some daydreaming of his about what he'd like to see in the near future.