References

Part of the [[10 minute devops]] series

• Installation
  • Determinate Nix
  • Devbox
• devbox init in root of project
• devbox add all tools that will be mandatory - even if you have them installed globally
• Pin any versions that will be sensitive to change - e.g.terraform
  • Version can be 1.12.2 or 1.12 for patch version upgrades - verify
• Use [direnv](How I use direnv)
• How to gc and why it's important - full disk
• Using nix-shell -p <package> --run $SHELL for ephemeral package installation
  • nix is a requirement so it can be used
  • Nix packages