Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes
Last year, we here at Determinate Systems announced FlakeHub, a platform for publishing and discovering Nix flakes. From the outset, FlakeHub provided pathbreaking features like semantic versioning (SemVer) for flakes and a variety of ways to discover flakes published to the platform.
In the meantime, numerous Nix users have published hundreds of flakes and used those flakes countless times—for their Home Manager and nix-darwin configurations, to deploy NixOS systems to production, to distribute tools like Tailscale and Colmena, and much more.
Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes. These powerful additions are now open to all FlakeHub organizations, helping you solve a variety of complex challenges that can arise when scaling Nix adoption across teams and projects.
Traditional Nix binary caches present significant challenges for large teams, often requiring them to manage multiple caches across projects, generate and distribute static credentials, and implement complex access controls on their own. As organizations grow, a number of problems compound:
