Nix on Jupyter on Docker

Dockerfile

FROM jupyter/minimal-notebook:36bce751008f

USER root
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl

RUN mkdir /nix
RUN chown jovyan /nix

ENV PATH=/home/jovyan/.nix-profile/bin:$PATH

USER $NB_UID
RUN curl -o nix-install https://nixos.org/nix/install
RUN chmod a+x nix-install
RUN ./nix-install --no-daemon
RUN rm nix-install
USER root
RUN ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/jovyan/profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh /etc/profile.d/
USER $NB_UID