Flakes

I’ve managed to recently upgrade my image building process for this website, using some of what I have been learning about Nix. For a while while I was first learning to use Nix I thoguht of the language, the packages, and the OS as being one thing. And this did a disservice to both the breadth of what Nix offers as well as the capabilities it offers.

Old Paradigm

So previously with this site I used a fairly straightforward and manual process. I installed Hugo on my local machine with dnf, ran the dev server, and edited my pages. When I pushed the commits into GitHub, I had a Containerfile in the repository that would get built with Docker or Podman, pushing the resulting image to my image repository. I used a multi-stage file, first pulling the Hugo image to build the files and then grabbing the resulting build produts to place them into the Nginx image.