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nlewo
nix2container
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nlewo / nix2container

nix2container

An archive-less dockerTools.buildImage implementation

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7Distinct people
16Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
945GitHub stars
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What it is

An archive-less dockerTools.buildImage implementation

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-04-19 13:20:40 UTC to 2025-12-25 20:51:35 UTC.

02462022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

What Hacker News says

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lewo·Apr 19, 2022
With https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container, I'm trying to make a more standalone tool. Basically, a Go binary takes a reference graph and produces a JSON file describing a container image. This JSON file is then ingested by a Skopeo fork (it adds a new `transport`) to produce images (to file, registries,...). Currently, it supports the dockerTools layering algorithm and is designed to work with Guix [1] as well;) [1] https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container/blob/065e5b108650ee4c...
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