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		bogomipz on April 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cheap Docker images with Nix I really like the Nix package manager, however is there an upside to using Nix to build a Docker image over just writing a regular Dockerfile? Is this an odd use case? Maybe it just for demo purposes? Is there a benefit I'm overlooking?

cstrahan on April 16, 2016 [–]

For reference, I left a comment further down:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509065

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