Today, I’m excited to announce Determinate Nix, Determinate Systems’ distribution of Nix built for teams and optimized for the enterprise. Nix is

Announcing Determinate Nix

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2024-10-21 20:00:08

Today, I’m excited to announce Determinate Nix, Determinate Systems’ distribution of Nix built for teams and optimized for the enterprise.

Nix is extremely versatile and powerful, but as is often the case with free software projects, it is also unopinionated and “low policy.” As a result, getting Nix to work well in a development team requires a frustrating amount of configuration. For instance:

Setting up access to a private binary cache requires figuring out access control, distributing credentials, and configuring files like nix.conf.

While Determinate Nix Installer has greatly improved the installation experience on macOS, enterprise users still lack features like Mobile Device Management (MDM) support, proper Amazon EC2 integration and Keychain support.

With Determinate Nix, our goal is to transform Nix from what it is today—a tool with great potential but with too many hard edges to be ready for prime time—into a part of your stack that does the Right Thing out of the box for teams big and small.