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example-nixpkgs-based-docker-image
# Examples taken from:
# https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c58b11d229f63a85ee1d05fc9940a20fa2b73975/pkgs/build-support/docker/examples.nix
# Usage:
# $ nix-build -A redis
# $ docker load < result
{ nixpkgs ? (builtins.fetchGit {
url = git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels;
ref = "nixos-18.09";
rev = "c58b11d229f63a85ee1d05fc9940a20fa2b73975";
})
}:
let
pkgs = import nixpkgs { overlays = [ ]; config = { }; };
buildImage = pkgs.dockerTools.buildImage;
pullImage = pkgs.dockerTools.pullImage;
shadowSetup = pkgs.dockerTools.shadowSetup;
buildImageWithNixDb = pkgs.dockerTools.buildImageWithNixDb;
in
rec {
# 1. basic example
bash = buildImage {
name = "bash";
tag = "latest";
contents = pkgs.bashInteractive;
};
# 2. service example, layered on another image
redis = buildImage {
name = "redis";
tag = "latest";
# for example's sake, we can layer redis on top of bash or debian
fromImage = bash;
# fromImage = debian;
contents = pkgs.redis;
runAsRoot = ''
mkdir -p /data
'';
config = {
Cmd = [ "/bin/redis-server" ];
WorkingDir = "/data";
Volumes = {
"/data" = {};
};
};
};
# 3. another service example
nginx = let
nginxPort = "80";
nginxConf = pkgs.writeText "nginx.conf" ''
user nginx nginx;
daemon off;
error_log /dev/stdout info;
pid /dev/null;
events {}
http {
access_log /dev/stdout;
server {
listen ${nginxPort};
index index.html;
location / {
root ${nginxWebRoot};
}
}
}
'';
nginxWebRoot = pkgs.writeTextDir "index.html" ''
<html><body><h1>Hello from NGINX</h1></body></html>
'';
in
buildImage {
name = "nginx-container";
tag = "latest";
contents = pkgs.nginx;
runAsRoot = ''
#!${pkgs.stdenv.shell}
${shadowSetup}
groupadd --system nginx
useradd --system --gid nginx nginx
'';
config = {
Cmd = [ "nginx" "-c" nginxConf ];
ExposedPorts = {
"${nginxPort}/tcp" = {};
};
};
};
# 4. example of pulling an image. could be used as a base for other images
nixFromDockerHub = pullImage {
imageName = "nixos/nix";
imageDigest = "sha256:20d9485b25ecfd89204e843a962c1bd70e9cc6858d65d7f5fadc340246e2116b";
sha256 = "0mqjy3zq2v6rrhizgb9nvhczl87lcfphq9601wcprdika2jz7qh8";
finalImageTag = "1.11";
};
# 5. example of multiple contents, emacs and vi happily coexisting
editors = buildImage {
name = "editors";
contents = [
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.bash
pkgs.emacs
pkgs.vim
pkgs.nano
];
};
# 6. nix example to play with the container nix store
# docker run -it --rm nix nix-store -qR $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A nix)
nix = buildImageWithNixDb {
name = "nix";
tag = "latest";
contents = [
# nix-store uses cat program to display results as specified by
# the image env variable NIX_PAGER.
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.nix
];
config = {
Env = [ "NIX_PAGER=cat" ];
};
};
# 7. example of adding something on top of an image pull by our
# dockerTools chain.
onTopOfPulledImage = buildImage {
name = "onTopOfPulledImage";
tag = "latest";
fromImage = nixFromDockerHub;
contents = [ pkgs.hello ];
};
# 8. regression test for erroneous use of eval and string expansion.
# See issue #34779 and PR #40947 for details.
runAsRootExtraCommands = pkgs.dockerTools.buildImage {
name = "runAsRootExtraCommands";
tag = "latest";
contents = [ pkgs.coreutils ];
# The parens here are to create problematic bash to embed and eval. In case
# this is *embedded* into the script (with nix expansion) the initial quotes
# will close the string and the following parens are unexpected
runAsRoot = ''echo "(runAsRoot)" > runAsRoot'';
extraCommands = ''echo "(extraCommand)" > extraCommands'';
};
}
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