Nix Store Proxy

A proxy that acts as binary cache for Nix.

• Signs Narinfo in flight with own private key
• Authenticates with S3 to forward NARs for long-term storage
• Keeps a local cache on disk for faster responses.

Usage

To add store paths to the cache, you can use nix copy:

nix copy --to 's3://cache?endpoint=127.0.0.1:7070&scheme=http' .#foo

To use this as your binary cache, specify it as a substituter:

nix build --option substituters http://127.0.0.1:7070 .#foo

Public and private keys are inherited from the Nix configuration. So if your system already has a private key specified, you won't need to that again.

Signatures are checked against the the trusted-public-keys of your configuration.

Upload after every build

Set a post-build-hook in your nix configuration to a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
set -euf
export IFS=' '
echo "Uploading to cache: $OUT_PATHS"
exec nix copy --to 's3://cache?endpoint=127.0.0.1:7070&scheme=http' $OUT_PATHS

TODO

• Write tests
• Distribute lookups across multiple caches
• Proper CLI usage
• Verify existing signatures
• Disk cache size limits and LRU eviction
• Metrics for cache usage