nixos/containers: add 'ephemeral' option #66846
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@uvNikita do you mind adding this test to |
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@mmahut sure, thanks for the input! |
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@GrahamcOfBorg test containers-ephemeral |
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Thank you for your contribution. |
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This pull request has been mentioned on Nix community. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-nixos-as-an-stateless-workstation/3081/17 |
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This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/ephemeral-containers-for-devs/9447/7 |
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Motivation for this change
The new option allows defining completely ephemeral nixos containers that bootstrap themselves on each boot from scratch without leaving any artifacts after shutdown. Useful when all you want is to run stateless, nix-configured services. Some use cases include:
Things done
sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS)nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"./result/bin/)nix path-info -Sbefore and after)Notify maintainers
cc @grahamc @danbst @flokli @arianvp