This is a plugin for dokku that gives you the option of using Nix to build your app images, instead of the default Herokuish or Dockerfile builders.
# dokku 0.23.2+
$ dokku plugin:install https://github.com/jameysharp/dokku-builder-nix.git(As of this writing, the builder-detect trigger that this plugin relies on is
not yet in a released version of Dokku. See dokku/dokku#4379 for the
current status.)
Create a docker.nix at the root of your app's source tree. The result of
running nix-build on that must be an executable which streams output
compatible with docker load to stdout. The Nixpkgs dockerTools
streamLayeredImage function is the recommended way to do this: set
config.Cmd to a program which will listen for incoming HTTP connections on
$PORT.
See my blog post, Quickly building minimal Docker containers with Nix, for the rationale behind this project.
This plugin is derived from dokku's builder-cnb, and released under the same MIT license as Dokku itself. See the file LICENSE.